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schmuck

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Schmuck is a surname of German origin. As a noun, it means jewelry ; as an adjective, it means neat in the sense of clean, tidy, or having a simple elegance. The name is commonly seen on signs and billboards in Germany and Austria related to the merchandising ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. (Yiddish) a jerk [syn: shmuck , schmo , shmo ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context vulgar English) The penis. 2 (context pejorative English) A useless item or person. 3 (context pejorative US English) A jerk; an unpleasant or detestable person.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A genius, maybe, but also a schmuck . ▪ I thought it was all a joke, you've really got to be some schmuck to fall for that one.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also shmuck , "contemptible person," 1892, from East Yiddish shmok , literally "penis," probably from Old Polish smok "grass snake, dragon," and likely not the same word as German Schmuck "jewelry, adornments," which is related to Low German smuck "supple, ...

Usage examples of schmuck.

Phil could be a schmuck upon occasion, but basically he was a good person, so I was a little taken back by his insensitivity.

And now, John Corey, a year into his second marriage, living in the apartment of his first wife, Robin, who was living with her boss, a total schmuck, making too much money defending financially successful scum.

It was hard not to laugh again, they were such colossal schmucks, but I let them put on a little face-saving sideshow, to which middle fingers were copiously added, and eventually they sulked away.

I almost laughed out loud, these guys were such schmucks, in their own dumb way as stupid as those kids I had faced down on the street so long ago.

Algol-Raphael, patriarch of the Algol clan, king schmuck of the universe, has parked himself beside a column next to the stairway.

In this one I come off looking like a schmuck, and don't we all love stories in which the invincible hero, the all-knowing savant, the omnipotent smartass is condignly flummoxed?

Get in there and compete with all the ass kissers and bottom feeders, all the no-talent schmucks that constellate around the studio execs who don’t know what they’re doing either.

Danny Getchell lurked by the Greek Theatre, backstopped by some movie camera schmuck.

It reminded her of musical chairs: as soon as the music stopped in this room, some poor schmuck would no doubt be left standing, ass exposed and ready to be kicked.

What kind of base and brainless schmucks are these people to worship somebody who, number one, never existed, and number two, if he did, looking as he does in that picture, was without a doubt The Pansy of Palestine.

Only instead of going to the corner convenience store to buy another lottery ticket, these Joe Schmucks go back to the mines and gamble in unsafe pits and die young.

Evenings went to introspection: I screened films of my old fights, Stan `The Man' Klein, feather-fisted, cannon fodder for hungry schmucks looking to pad their records.

Twenty million of these doomed schmucks, crowded into slums overflowing an island smaller than my family’s west lawn on Old Earth, all of them fighting to breathe the only breathable air on a world where the standard is to inhale and die, crowding ever closer to the center of the sixty-mile radius of survivable atmosphere which the Atmospheric Generating Station had been able to provide before it began to malfunction.

Twenty thousand surveyed worlds fit for our kind when the Hegira began, and those schmucks came here.

The hero of my story was your classic Poor Schmuck, a guy named Roger who had done jail time twice for counterfeiting money - one more bust would make him a three-time loser.