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schmate

schmate is the alternative form of shmatte.

Meaning of shmatte

Noun

shmatte (plural shmattes)

  1. A rag.
  2. An old or dirty article of clothing.
  3. (slang, fashion industry) Any item of clothing.
    • She skipped onto a minimally decorated stage in a pale salmon pink schmate covered in bows, loose-fitting and obviously filled with surprises.1983 April 9, Walta Borawski, “Midler in Boston”, in Gay Community News, page 12

Forms of schmate

pluralschmates

Questions about schmate

What is schmate the alternative form of?
Schmate is the alternative form of shmatte.

Words near schmate in the dictionary

  1. schmalzy
  2. schmancier
  3. schmanciest
  4. schmancy
  5. schmarmy
  6. schmate
  7. schmatte
  8. schmattes
  9. schmear
  10. schmeared
  11. schmearing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: schmate (page history and authors); shmatte (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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