Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A stupid or easily victimized person; a dupe.
Wiktionary
- n. slang A person who is easily taken advantage of.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised
Etymologies
- From Yiddish שנוק (shnuk), a person easily imposed upon or cheated. (Wiktionary)
- Yiddish shnuk, snout, schnook, from Lithuanian snukis, mug, snout. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Mr. CHALFIE: So, okay, who's the schnook that got the prize this time?”
“I opened up my laptop and I got to the Nobel Prize site and I found out I was the schnook.”
“I had always marveled at him for this, at the effrontery that this Brooklyn schnook possessed, to actually want to stand up there before crowds of strangers, joking and preening and laughing at his own written words in his inimitable Coney Islandese.”
The Huffington Post: Erica Heller: The Catch-22 of Book Readings, The Taste of Mackerel
“He told any lie to sell fake land to some poor schnook, but he loved what he was doing, and in turn the audience loved him, including me.”
“This week's episode made good use of rising stars Bobby Steggart (as a boyish client) and Anika Noni Rose (as sleek opposing counsel), while Rubicon's Dallas Roberts stole every one of his scenes as Alicia's sardonic gay brother, still urging her to leave her schnook of a husband.”
“Examples: A suicidal schnook leaps from a building and falls directly on Harry, and she makes him her paralegal.”
“He's hounded at work by grotesque boors, including a lascivious boss played by Buffy's Anthony Head — reprising his role from the original British series, which BBC America will begin showing next month — who keep urging the schnook to "get back on the horse.”
“I felt like a schnook pulling into the campus parking lot at the University of Colorado, Boulder in my gas-guzzling SUV.”
“It chronicles Mr. Stoller's 40-week chance to break out of the schnook box as a writer for "Seinfeld.”
The Wall Street Journal: Diary of a Nebbishy Comic: 'My Seinfeld Year'
“The schnook, he says, is "the role I was born to play.”
The Wall Street Journal: Diary of a Nebbishy Comic: 'My Seinfeld Year'
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘schnook’.
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Yiddishkeit
There are a few short lists of Yiddish words, but none appropriate to the glory of the language, and none that are open. Thought I'd start one, and would love contributions. I'm tagging as I go, an...
schmuck, nosh, chutzpah, shtick, kvetch, oy vey, oy gevalt, shvitz, shtik, shiksa, putz, mensch and 94 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 567 more...
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Four Initial Consonants
Words that begin with a string of four consonants. The letter wye doesn't count, unless it clearly isn't acting as a vowel.
chthonic, nschiego, tschego, schmooze, schmaltz, schnapps, schlocky, schlieric, schlieren, schlump, schmutz, schmuck and 16 more...
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Insult Words
A rich collection of all the ways you can insult someone's intelligence.
idiot, cretin, moron, dimwit, nincompoop, meathead, addlepate, dingbat, dumbbell, dunce, fool, halfwit and 31 more...
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Wrongheads
Insults that make me laugh. Some of these are re-contextualized because they sound like insults to me.
wretched, dasdardly, sniveling, dingbat, rankle, vapid, ninny, nincompoop, dolt, imbecile, fucktard, scoundrel and 173 more...
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Name-Calling for Fun and Profit
I figured out the thing all these terms have in common, besides that they can be used as insults. They all crack me up.
drip, yahoo, dweeb, nimrod, wanker, nincompoop, weasel, skank, fussbudget, dink, twit, guttersnipe and 125 more...
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word set 12
plasmasphere, cockatrice, delimitable, precipitancy, trellising, thermochromism, cadenza, tentaculiferous, fluctiferous, circumambient, loblolly, trailing edge and 142 more...
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Cat Kisses Favorites
leprechaunic hair, a dinky grin, strangled giggle, a waft of words, comatose fun, a grisly shooting..., jim bag clothes, to quench and fuss, shutter hole, tearful sludge, dead-eye blue, coughing curtains... and 97 more...
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Jayni's Favorites
Too early to tell
schnook, pish, tetchy, megillah, nebbish, plotz, slattern, trollop
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technomom's Words
misology, sacerdotal, omphaloskepsis, jimjams, incunabulum, repose, trecento, chimera, tridecennary, tenebrous, purblind, floruit and 207 more...
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Duped
Those who are easily duped.
cully, cull, gudgeon, gull, gull-gallant, chouse, geck, chump, fall guy, mark, fool, mug and 39 more...
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Schmuck
schmuck, nebbish, schlemiel, schmo, klutz, schnook, kvetch, meshuggener, noodge, nudnik, pisher, putz and 5 more...
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Scriptie: Miller's Crossing
By the Coen brothers, 1990.
ethics, high hat, schnook, elves, schmatta, the fix, guinea, on the nose, greengrocer, bookie, protection money, rumpus and 80 more...
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glover's Words
hypostasy, volatilise, immanence, firmament, intransigence, contrapuntal, ebon, ort, ciré, raves, cuer, roil and 35 more...
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