schmuck
/ˈʃmʌk/
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Ireland/ˈʃmʊk/
schmuck noun: a jerk; a person who is unlikable, detestable, or contemptible because they are stupid, foolish, clumsy, oafish, inept, malicious, or unpleasant.
Noun
schmuck (plural schmucks)
- A jerk; a person who is unlikable, detestable, or contemptible because they are stupid, foolish, clumsy, oafish, inept, malicious, or unpleasant.
- One day my girlfriend, her boyfriend and I were sunbathing topless because that's Barbados - you can wear nothing if you want. And the Pepsi guy walks up and with my agent to meet us for lunch. I wondered if I should put on my top because I have a business relationship with him. I didn't want him...1995 September, “The Playboy Interview: Cindy Crawford”, in Playboy
- “You’re an asshole whose best friends include Hitler’s wet dream and a Jew.”
“Yea, well, I’m only friends with you because I want to shtoop your sister.”
“Everybody wants to shtoop your sister,” Craig laughed.
“No, everybody wants to shtoop Waters’ sister and you are not shtoopin’ my sister,” Joe...2010, Tom Oathout, AN AMERICAN SON
- A deplorable, pitiful person.
- poor schmuck
- Bad vibrations? Sandy, I love you, but you're a schmuck. You were always young, Sandy, open. You were schmucky a lot of the time, but maybe schmuckiness is what you need to stay young and open.1971, Jules Feiffer, directed by Mike Nichols, Carnal Knowledge, spoken by Jonathan (Jack Nicholson)
Verb
schmuck (third-person singular simple present schmucks, present participle schmucking, simple past and past participle schmucked)
- To behave like a schmuck.
- […] there's actually a shortage of schmucks in America. As a result, there's big money in schmucking. The average schmuck earns $28,000 a year, plus benefits.2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
- To mash or smoosh.
- His buddy was supposed to be arriving from Helena that morning but had schmucked a mule deer buck with his vehicle so there was going to be a delay.2008, Richard Powell, Rode Hard and Put Away Wet, page 171
- “She schmucked three deer on M-95,” del Olmo said. “I was two minutes behind her. Man, she blew them up! […]2020, Joseph Heywood, Shadow of the Wolf Tree, page 130
Proper noun capitalized: Schmuck
Schmuck
- A surname from German.
Examples of schmuck in a sentence
- He wasn't even being a schmuck, like wanting to see.1995 September, “The Playboy Interview: Cindy Crawford”, in Playboy:
- “You're born a schmuck and you'll die a schmuck.2014 March 4, Nick Kroll, “Mercury Poisoning” (8:21 from the start), in Kroll Show, season 2, episode 8, spoken by George St. Geegland...
- She took a small piece in her hand, and Mitch said, "What are you doing with that, babe?" and she schmucked it into his mouth.2021, Victoria Pearle Hart, Ladies of the Mountain:
Synonyms of schmuck
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Forms of schmuck
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | schmucks |
| alternative form | schmock |
| alternative form | shmock |
| alternative form | shmok |
| alternative form | shmuck |
| alternative form | shmuk |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | schmucks |
| present participle | schmucking |
| past participle | schmucked |
| past | schmucked |
Origin of schmuck
From Yiddish שמאָק (shmok, “penis, fool”).
Words formed from schmuck
Words that rhyme with schmuck
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Questions about schmuck
- What does schmuck mean?
- Schmuck means a jerk; a person who is unlikable, detestable, or contemptible because they are stupid, foolish, clumsy, oafish, inept, malicious, or unpleasant.
- How do you use schmuck in a sentence?
- He wasn't even being a schmuck, like wanting to see.
- What part of speech is schmuck?
- Schmuck can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce schmuck?
- Schmuck is pronounced /ˈʃmʌk/.
- What is the plural of schmuck?
- The plural of schmuck is schmucks.
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