German and Dutch: nickname for a lumpish person or a farmer,
from Middle High German, Middle Dutch scholle ‘clod of
earth’.
Dutch and North German: from Middle Dutch scholle,
schulle ‘flounder’, ‘plaice’, hence a metonymic occupational
name for a fisherman or a fish seller, or a nickname for someone
thought to resemble a flouder.
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