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schmuck
English
Alternative forms
- shmuck, shmuk
Etymology
From Yiddish ?????? (shmok, “penis, fool”). Further origin uncertain. Probably from Old Polish smok (“dragon”), akin to Bulgarian ???? (smok, “grass snake”). Perhaps akin to onomatopoeic Russian ???????? (smoktat?) smoktat ("to suck") according to old belief that snakes suck milk from animals. Alternatively a baby-talk corruption of Yiddish ?????? (shmekl), a dissimilated form of ?????? (shtekl, “penis/willy”, literally “little stick”). Alternatively from the verb Middle High German smucken, archaic German schmucken, which has several meanings allowing possible semantic connections: 1.) “to squeeze, press, fit into something tight”; 2.) “to hug, snuggle, kiss”; 3.) “to adorn, decorate”. The last of these three senses is perhaps less likely, but compare German Schmuck (“jewellery”) with English crown jewels.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Noun
schmuck (plural schmucks)
- (colloquial, derogatory, US) A jerk; a person who is unlikable, detestable, or contemptible because he or she is stupid, foolish, clumsy, oafish, inept, malicious, or unpleasant.
- Synonyms: twerp, twit, dope, dick, dork, prick, putz
- 1995 September, The Playboy Interview: Cindy Crawford, Playboy
- One day my girlfriend, her boyfriend and I were sunbathing topless because that's Barbados - you can wear nothing if you want. And the Pepsi guy walks up and with my agent to meet us for lunch. I wondered if I should put on my top because I have a business relationship with him. I didn't want him to get offended because the rest of the beach had seen me with my top off. Meanwhile, as he's walking towards me he's saying to my agent "I hope she puts on her top.". He wasn't even being a schmuck, like wanting to see.
- (colloquial, derogatory) A deplorable, pitiful person; often in the form poor schmuck.
Derived terms
- Schmucksville
- schmucky
Translations
See also
- schlemiel
Further reading
- Yiddish language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
German
Etymology
From Middle Low German smuk (“supple, bendsome, pleasing, beautiful, petite, cute”) (compare Middle Low German smuk (“ornament, jewellery”)), from Old Saxon *smuk, *smukk, from Proto-Germanic *smukkaz (“flexible, bendsome, easy”), from Proto-Indo-European *smewg- (“to slip, glide, slide”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?k/
- Homophone: Schmuck
- Rhymes: -?k
Adjective
schmuck (comparative schmucker, superlative am schmucksten)
- (dated) pretty, spruce
Declension
Further reading
- “schmuck” in Duden online
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puts
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?ts/
Verb
puts
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of put
Noun
puts
- plural of put
See also
- putz
Anagrams
- sput, supt., tups
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- putsu
Etymology
From Latin puteus. Compare Romanian pu?.
Noun
puts n (plural putsuri)
- well
See also
- fãntãnã
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?puts/
- Rhymes: -uts
Verb
puts
- second-person singular present indicative form of pudir
Estonian
Etymology
Possibly from either Middle Low German putse, pütte (“wet hole, spring, cave”), pute (“sexual organ”), or German Pfütze (“puddle”). Cognate to Votic puttsi.
Noun
puts (genitive putsi, partitive putsi)
- (vulgar) female genitalia, especially the vulva
Declension
Synonyms
- vitt
Swedish
Pronunciation
- Homophone: putts
Noun
puts c
- plaster
Related terms
- putsa
Anagrams
- stup
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