Etymologies
- From Yiddish שמעגעגע (shmegege). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I'm just some schmegeggy from a crap town outside London but nobody knows that here and they wouldn't care if they did.”
The Wall Street Journal: For Barneys Ambassador, It's All Window Dressing
“Best to just sit back and enjoy the creepy-crawlies scurrying up your backbone as the whole schmegeggy unfolds.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘schmegeggy’.
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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Favorite Words That Aren't Really Words
Whether slang, acronyms, or madeupical, they're too good not to put on some list or other. See the companion list, "Favorite Words That Are Really More Like Phrases," here.
pwned, craptacular, embiggen, phwoar, dealie-bob, doojiggy, bootylicious, craptastic, ^_^, π, oo-ee-oo-ah-ah-ti..., gustnado and 326 more...
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Tickles my humerus
I find these to be inherently funny.
cow tipping, bumblebee, homoscedasticity, seattle, wagga wagga, booby, pants, guacamole, poodle, fanny pack, nincompoop, svenborgia and 161 more...
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Portnoy's Complaint
Words gathered while reading Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth.
bonditt, goy, kishkas, goyische, shkotzim, if-onlying, pishachs, schvartze, milchiks, flaishedigeh, galvanic, chazerai and 123 more...
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Silly-Sounding Suckers
degringolade, squoze, hootenanny, abligurition, aberuncate, all-overish, hooroosh, booboisie, smell-feast, petcock, obzocky, jehu and 31 more...
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OED Wanderings
biopoesis, clat-fart, linsey-woolsey, rannygazoo, schmegeggy
Tweets
Looking for tweets for schmegeggy.
mollusque I'm familiar with this as schmegegge, an unpleasant or incompetent person. Apparently it also means nonsense or baloney. Dec 17, 2008
chained_bear One of my favorite people in the world says this a lot, as a synonym for whatchamacallit. *loves on it* Dec 17, 2008