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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Slang A clumsy or stupid person; an oaf.

Wiktionary

  1. n. vulgar The penis.
  2. n. pejorative An item or person that is considered useless.
  3. n. pejorative A jerk; an unpleasant or detestable person.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (Yiddish) a jerk

Etymologies

  1. From Yiddish שמאָק (shmok, "penis"), from Old Polish smok ("dragon") or from German Schmuck ("jewellery") . (Wiktionary)
  2. Yiddish shmok, penis, fool, probably from Polish smok, serpent, tail. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “He proposed a concept which he called schmuck insurance, which was to protect us from looking foolish," Ackman, 43, said in a deposition for the lawsuit.”

    Bloomberg

  • “I don't know why I'm even bothering to feed the trolls, but technically "schmuck" is Yiddish, though its prejorative use has been widely adpoted into American nomcenlature.”

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch

  • “Based on your love of using the word schmuck, it must be one or the other.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » A Bet for Climate Skeptics:

  • “He's a friggin 'schmuck, and I will campaign even harder to defeat Kennedy than almost any other Republican, because he's an opportunist.”

    Your Right Hand Thief

  • “I got $5 that says that stupid schmuck is gong to wind up sueing someone over this.”

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Another stupid kid

  • “By the end of that movie, some poor schmuck is going to open that door and go down there alone.”

    June 7th, 2005

  • “Anyway, I am not going to shed crocodile tears for this person I called a schmuck a while back, because WHAT HE DID WAS HIS OWN DOING.”

    "I don't like to call the police or call his boss. . . . I'm a libertarian. I'm not into that."

  • “It wasn't so very bad, it's just that her old Jewish man sounded like a twenty-something woman and said things like "Get a grip" when he wasn't saying things like "schmuck"- the scenes were cliches, the language merely forgettable.”

    IN WHICH HEROES STUMBLE

  • “[insert dueling banjos theme from deliverance here.] fine. but the question then becomes this: if someone doesn't know what the word schmuck means, how rude is it for me to call them one?”

    state tree: longleaf pine

  • “That schmuck is on par with the ambassadors who intentionally rack up thousands in unpaid parking tickets knowing they can’t be prosecuted for it.”

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 8, 2010

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synonyms (6)

Words with the same meaning

  1. prick
  1. dork
  1. foreskin
  1. penis
  1. dick
  1. putz

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. jerk
  1. dork

same context (22)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. kellysummer
  2. spasming
  3. cholo
  4. towrite
  1. crybaby
  2. clop-clop
  3. family
  4. busybody
  1. child!
  2. rockfish
  3. decisions
  4. cardiologist
  1. cop-out
  2. lummox
  3. scrolling
  4. son-of-a-bitch
  1. dog-trot
  2. passerby
  3. Irving
  4. snoozer
  1. meticulousness
  2. basset

rhymes (36)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Buck
  2. Canuck
  3. Chuck
  4. Duck
  5. Gluck
  6. Puck
  7. amok
  1. amuck
  2. bruck
  3. buck
  4. chuck
  5. chuck-a-luck
  6. cluck
  7. duck
  1. fluck
  2. fuck
  3. guck
  4. huck
  5. luck
  6. muck
  7. pluck
  1. puck
  2. ruck
  3. shuck
  4. snuck
  5. struck
  6. stuck
  7. stucke
  1. suc
  2. suck
  3. suk
  4. truck
  5. tuck
  6. unstuck
  7. yuck
  1. yuk

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  1. shmuck

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  • garyth123 I understood that schmuck was the Yiddish word for the foreskin. See the Wikitionary entry on schmuck and eg Mel Brooks Starts Nonprofit Foundation To Save Word 'Schmuck'.

    In the UK helmet is used in a similar sense. Apr 12, 2009

  • seanahan I wasn't really sure when I made that joke, I've only ever had one reference point. And now we've taken this page to a discussion that will make people uncomfortable. Apr 10, 2009

  • chained_bear "More pleasure" for whom? That's a decidedly one-sided view. Apr 10, 2009

  • seanahan While it's true that they are used in the same way, it is worth noting that more pleasure can be derived from one than the other. Apr 10, 2009

  • rolig That's hilarious, Sionnach! Apr 9, 2009

  • sionnach
    Rolig's comment reminds me of an ad I once saw in some gay German magazine for, let's say, intimate male body piercings (think PrinceAlbertinacanistan):

    "Ein Schmuckstück für Dein Schmuckstück".

    Somehow it sounds even worse when you read it out loud. Apr 9, 2009

  • rolig What I find curious about this word is that in German it means "ornament, jewelry/jewellery" – a very different connotation indeed from its use in modern American English. I wonder if its establishment in Yiddish as "penis" was the result of a euphemism, like we say "the family jewels". Apr 9, 2009

  • chained_bear Which doesn't mean they are not used in exactly the same way. Apr 9, 2009

  • gangerh Except that one of them is ceremonially circumcised. Apr 9, 2009

  • seanahan Indeed, schmuck and dick are used in the exact same way. Apr 9, 2009

  • pterodactyl Perhaps it's used the same way dick is, as in "That guy's a dick". Apr 7, 2009

  • susanm Um, not to be rude, but schmuck is the Yiddish word for penis. Apr 7, 2009

  • azzato I believe this word comes from Yiddish and means penis. Apr 3, 2009

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