shlepping
Dragging stuff laboriously
Shlepping is carrying or hauling something, especially with effort or reluctance.
From Yiddish, the word suggests tedious transport—dragging bags, lugging groceries, moving boxes: I spent the morning shlepping furniture up three flights of stairs.
To shlep somewhere is to travel there tediously: We shlepped all the way across town for nothing.
Also spelled schlepping.
Transporting heavy items
- luggingCarrying with difficulty
- draggingPulling with effort
- totingCarrying, especially laboriously
- cartingMoving cargo by wagon
transporting · heaving · hoisting · shouldering · portaging · humping · ferrying · bearing
Walking with difficulty
- sloggingEffortful, weary progress
- ploddingMoving slowly, heavily
- laboringWorking strenuously
- toilingWorking strenuously, exhaustingly
struggling · exertion · grueling · exhausting · tiring · wearisome · arduous · fatiguing
hauling
Transporting heavy items
carting · transporting · heaving · hoisting · shouldering · portaging · humping · ferrying · bearing · trucking
trudging
Walking with difficulty
toiling · struggling · exertion · grueling · exhausting · tiring · wearisome · arduous · fatiguing · draining
trekking
Long-distance foot travel
crosstown · subway · long-haul · round-trip · detour · suitcase · airport · terminal · baggage · luggage
schmuck
Obnoxious, contemptible person
nosh · oy · verklempt · schmaltz · kibbitz · maven · nebbish · shtick · tsuris · schlimazel
schlep, shlep, schlepp, shleps, schleps, schlepped, schlepping, schlepper, shlepped