Schmuck Definition

zhmuk
schmucks
noun
schmucks
A contemptible or foolish person; jerk.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Schmuck

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Singular:
schmuck
Plural:
schmucks

Origin of Schmuck

  • Yiddish shmok penis, fool probably from Polish smok dragon Bulgarian smok grass-snake perhaps akin to Russian smoktat’ to suck (since folk tradition holds that snakes suck milk from livestock), of imitative origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Yiddish שמאָק (shmok, “penis"), from Old Polish smok (“dragon") or from German Schmuck (“jewellery") .

    From Wiktionary

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