köken: Inherited from Old Spanish pescueço, with the first part deriving from the Latin prefix post and the second from an earlier coço; compare Galician pescozo and Portuguese pescoço.
schlub · greedy, avaricious person · any large, burly man, often a bodybuilder
çekim: çoğul жлобы́ · tamlayan жлоба́
eş: грубиян, деревенщина, наглец, невежа, невежда, хам
köken: From Yiddish זשלאָב (zhlob, “goyish bumpkin, redneck”), derived from Polish żłób (“manger, furrow”), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *žȇlbъ. Doublet of жёлоб (žólob, “trench, trough”), an inherited form. Originated in klezmer musician cant (Klezmer-loshn). The nature of the semantic shift from "manger, crib" to "boorish goy" remains unclear. By the year 1869 however, it had become common enough to…
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pescoço (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from post- (“after”) + *coccius (“nape”). Cognate with Portuguese pescoço and Spanish pescuezo.
aile: pescozada
Et o Cçide leuãtouse et tomou o leõ pelo pescoço, bẽ com̃o se fosse hũu alaao manso
1390, José Luís Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 4
A schlub, a boorish bumpkin, particularly if not Jewish.
köken: From Polish żłób (“manger, trough; furrow, large groove in the soil”). Originated in klezmer musician cant (Klezmer-loshn). The nature of the semantic shift from "manger, crib" to "boorish goy" remains unclear. In any case, by the year 1869, it had become common enough to be included in a Russian-Yiddish dictionary published in Zhytomyr. Jewish immigrants brought the word to the United States,…