schlubbiness

English

Etymology

From schlubby +‎ -ness.

Noun

schlubbiness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being schlubby.
   • 1985 August 20, “Film strips”, in Owen Gleiberman, compiler, The Boston Phoenix, page 42:

     With Chevy Chase, whose caricature of suburban schlubbiness is starting to look like less of a caricature, plus Beverly D’Angelo and Dana Hill.

   • 2003 September 28, Josh Rottenberg, “Jack Out Of The Box”, in The New York Times Magazine, page 38:

     With a special talent for mad, flashing stares, blistering riffs of profanity and scatological schlubbiness, [Jack] Black has for years been the go-to guy for anyone casting the role of an unhinged co-worker or a bong-toting roommate.

   • 2005, Martin Kihn, House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time, Warner Business Books, →ISBN, page 4:

     He has absolutely no hair and always smiles and dresses impeccably in Thomas Pink shirts and the subtlest of suspenders, but, because of a certain schlubbiness of build, despite fastidious behaviors and careful courtesy, he always seems a bit rumpled up.