schlep
to carry something around with great effort
TRANSLATION
schlep = etwas schleppen, sich schleppen schlep (person) = der Depp, der Trottel schlep (arduous journey) = eine anstrengende Reise --- GOOGLE INDEX schlep: approximately 1,300,000 hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
A surprising number of frequent travelers — defined as those on the road at least 20 percent of the time — SCHLEP two laptop computers.
(USA Today)
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"Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman that you might envy started out as some kind of SCHLEP."
- Helen Gurley Brown, former editor of Cosmopolitan magazine
(USA Today)
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"Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman that you might envy started out as some kind of SCHLEP."
- Helen Gurley Brown, former editor of Cosmopolitan magazine
Did you
know?
schlep (also spelled schlepp)
verb
- to carry clumsily or with difficulty
- to move slowly or laboriously
noun
- a clumsy or stupid person
-an arduous journey
(The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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WORD ORIGIN
Schlep is a verb borrowed from the Yiddish schlepen, meaning to drag or carry something around with great effort or difficulty. Schlepen in turn stems from the Middle Low German schleppen. The college student might say, "I had to schlep two heavy armloads of books all the way across campus." When notebook computers first hit the market in Germany, they were jokingly called "Schlepptops."
Schlep also serves as a noun and in this case has a meaning that is close to "schlemiel," Yiddish for a clumsy or stupid person. As a noun, it may also be used in a sense directly related to its verb meaning - a long or arduous journey.
English contains several words of Yiddish origin, most of which entered the language through American English via Eastern European Jews who immigrated to New York. Like schlep/schlepp, the spelling can vary. Yiddish is closely related to modern German, which often makes it difficult to determine the exact origin of a particular word. Here are a few examples:
schmaltz - Schmaltz is slang for something that is "excessively sentimental," and often refers to music or art. The word stems from the Yiddish schmaltz and German Schmalz, which mean animal fat.
schnoz, schnozz, schnozzle, schnozzola - Slang for nose, especially a large one. Schnoz probably stems from the Yiddish shnoits or German Schnauze (snout).
zaftig, zoftig - Slang for a woman with a full figure and stems from the Yiddish zaftik and German saftig, meaning juicy.
(source: Morris Dictionary Of Word and Phrase Origins)
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SYNONYMS
(to carry)
drag, haul, heave, lift, lurch, lug, pull, tote, tow, tug, yank
(clumsy person)
bungler, clod, clumsy oaf, clunker, dolt, duffer, foozle, fumbler, klutz, lummox, muffer
(stupid person)
birdbrain, blockhead, bonehead, buffoon, cretin, dimwit, dope, dork, dumb ox, dunce, dunderhead, dupe, halfwit, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, lamebrain, lunkhead, meathead, moron, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, numskull, oaf, schlemiel, simpleton, stooge, twerp, twit
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"After a week of schlepping this laptop, I'm ready for a blackberry."
verb
- to carry clumsily or with difficulty
- to move slowly or laboriously
noun
- a clumsy or stupid person
-an arduous journey
(The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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WORD ORIGIN
Schlep is a verb borrowed from the Yiddish schlepen, meaning to drag or carry something around with great effort or difficulty. Schlepen in turn stems from the Middle Low German schleppen. The college student might say, "I had to schlep two heavy armloads of books all the way across campus." When notebook computers first hit the market in Germany, they were jokingly called "Schlepptops."
Schlep also serves as a noun and in this case has a meaning that is close to "schlemiel," Yiddish for a clumsy or stupid person. As a noun, it may also be used in a sense directly related to its verb meaning - a long or arduous journey.
English contains several words of Yiddish origin, most of which entered the language through American English via Eastern European Jews who immigrated to New York. Like schlep/schlepp, the spelling can vary. Yiddish is closely related to modern German, which often makes it difficult to determine the exact origin of a particular word. Here are a few examples:
schmaltz - Schmaltz is slang for something that is "excessively sentimental," and often refers to music or art. The word stems from the Yiddish schmaltz and German Schmalz, which mean animal fat.
schnoz, schnozz, schnozzle, schnozzola - Slang for nose, especially a large one. Schnoz probably stems from the Yiddish shnoits or German Schnauze (snout).
zaftig, zoftig - Slang for a woman with a full figure and stems from the Yiddish zaftik and German saftig, meaning juicy.
(source: Morris Dictionary Of Word and Phrase Origins)
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SYNONYMS
(to carry)
drag, haul, heave, lift, lurch, lug, pull, tote, tow, tug, yank
(clumsy person)
bungler, clod, clumsy oaf, clunker, dolt, duffer, foozle, fumbler, klutz, lummox, muffer
(stupid person)
birdbrain, blockhead, bonehead, buffoon, cretin, dimwit, dope, dork, dumb ox, dunce, dunderhead, dupe, halfwit, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, lamebrain, lunkhead, meathead, moron, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, numskull, oaf, schlemiel, simpleton, stooge, twerp, twit
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"After a week of schlepping this laptop, I'm ready for a blackberry."
