schlep



schlep

and shlep (ʃlɛp)
1. tv. to drag or carry someone or something. (From German schleppen via Yiddish.) Am I supposed to schlep this whole thing all the way back to the store?
2. n. a journey; a distance to travel or carry something. It takes about twenty minutes to make the schlep from here to there.
3. n. a stupid person; a bothersome person. (Literally, a drag.) Ask that shlep to wait in the hall until I am free. I’ll sneak out the back way.

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Djuro-Serbian
EinoAY-noFinnish
Xue-Chinese
MarikaMAH-ree-kah (Finnish)Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian, Greek, Finnish, Estonian
Erminio-Italian
Jelisaveta-Serbian