Schlep *** and all came into English from Yiddish

.s is for scelp.









schlep



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–verb (used with object) 

1. to carry; lug: 



to schlep an [umbrella] on a sunny day.  



–verb (used without object) 

2. to move slowly, awkwardly, or tediously: 



We schlepped [from] store [to] store all day.  



–noun 

3. Also, schlepper. someone or something that is tedious, slow, or awkward; drag. 

Also, schlepp, shlep, shlepp.





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schlemiel, schlep, schlock, schmaltz, schmo, schmooze, schmuck, schnook, schnozzle, schtick

 

 

All but schmaltz are slang, and all came into English from Yiddish. 



A schlemiel is "an unlucky, awkward person"; 

a schmo is "a stupid, foolish person"; 

a schnook is a "stupid, gullible person"; 



a schmuck is a "jerk" (from the word for penis); 



schlock is "something cheap, inferior"; 

schmaltz is "something sentimental"; 



 　

Even here, though, Cronenberg overplays his hand, with a shot of a sickle blade [slicing] into an eye; the balance is [tipped], and the scene is [spoiled]. Why go that far? Must he [cling] to his schlocky reputation at all costs?





to schmooze is to "chat or gossip"; 

schnozzle is a word for "nose, especially a big nose"; 



to schlep is to "carry or to walk slowly"; 



schtick (sometimes shtik) is "a talent or speciality, an entertainer’s routine." 



Spellings sometimes vary. 





　

But [Smith acolytes] would insist that is the point: 



Here we are, a decade later, and nothing has changed for Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran) and Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson). The movie begins where its predecessor left off, 



with Dante schlepping [to] work at the Quick Stop in New Freakin' Jersey. 



Randal still works at the video store next door. They're still go-nowhere men, moved off-site only by the inferno that devours the Quick Stop during Clerks II's opening moments. But they crawl only as far as Mooby's, the fast-food joint featured in other Smith films, because, try as the writer-director might to escape his View Askewniverse, he can take only right turns.





Languid