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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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schlepper
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?p?(r)
Etymology 1
From schlep +? -er.
Noun
schlepper (plural schleppers)
- A servant who carries things; a porter.
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Etymology 2
Borrowed from Yiddish ???????? (shleper).
Noun
schlepper (plural schleppers)
- (derogatory) One who wanders aimlessly.
- I can't interest the little schlepper in doing his homework.
- (derogatory) Any manual laborer, or other lowly employee.
- He's just a schlepper!
Related terms
- schlep
- schmuck
Quotations
- 1999: Woody Allen adored the scene, and sent up the figure in both film (“Love and Death”) and fiction: in a piece called “Death Knocks,” the Grim Reaper reappears for a game of gin rummy with a schlepper — The New Yorker, 13 May 1999
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