Crossword clues for schnook
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1948, probably from Yiddish shnuk "elephant's trunk," or altered from schmuck (q.v.), or perhaps from German schnucke "a small sheep," used in U.S. Yiddish for "a customer easily persuaded, a sucker."
Wiktionary
n. (context slang English) A person who is easily taken advantage of.
WordNet
n. (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despisedi; "don't be such an apologetic shnook" [syn: shnook]
Usage examples of "schnook".
That poor schnook of a Congressman had no clue how ruthless his date truly was.
It made the difference between two Theamelpos candidates with a successful social activity on their records, and two disgraced schnooks with a room reserved in their names at the Secaucus Hilton.
Everywhere in human space a flatlander is a schnook who never gets above the atmosphere.