shlump

shlump

slang A dull, dowdy, or untalented person; someone who is generally unattractive or unremarkable. From Yiddish. I'll never understand why a knockout beauty like Sarah is with a shlump like him. The tribute band, as it were, was just a bunch of shlumps in cheap costumes and makeup attempting to play KISS's greatest hits.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

schloomp

and schlump and shlump (ʃlump and ʃlʊmp)
n. a stupid and lazy person. (From German via Yiddish.) Tell that schloomp to get busy or get out.

shlump

verb
See schloomp
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • schlump
  • shlub
  • schloomp
  • schlub
  • zhlub
  • zhlubby
  • schlubby
  • jerkwater town
  • that's hardly saying much
  • that's not saying much
References in periodicals archive
Yiddishkeit seems to luxuriate in its own lack of elegance and its own marginalization, which is why a book of comics art, another outsider form, seems especially appropriate to describe it and why a wry shlump like Pekar seems an especially apt coauthor.
Yiddishkeit
Step, kick, kick, leap, kick, touch" had faded to "Schlep, shuffle, shuffie, shrug, shuffle, shlump." At least that's how it felt.
The show must go on ... and on and on and on: Broadway's marathon musicals rake in bucks as they struggle to stay fresh
Toots Shor says, "Don't be a shlump all your life, Gleason.
Underworld
Lorin's story has the dramatic pull of those 1940s mysteries like Rebecca o Laura, in which a somewhat shlump protagonist, entranced by a mythically beautiful dead woman, goes about piecing together her less than seemly his tory.
The Truth About Lorin Jones
The kids dress like shlumps. They are unspoiled and lovely.
In the Zionist Camp