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schmucky

schmucky adjective: characteristic of a schmuck.

Adjective

schmucky (comparative more schmucky, superlative most schmucky)

  1. (derogatory, slang) Characteristic of a schmuck.
    • [Jack Nicholson's character Jonathan:] 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's screenplay for Mike Nichols's film Carnal Knowledge
    • I think their principles are very admirable, and Jains, I mean, all I can say, Martha, I don’t know every Jain in the world and I’m sure there are some real schmucky Jains, but I just know that they are, are highly, generally, highly respected and known for being really upstanding people because if...2015, 1:06:13 from the start, in Believe It or Not - Jainism, Rabbi Gail Nord, YouTube: Gail Nord

Forms of schmucky

comparativemore schmucky
superlativemost schmucky
alternative formshmucky

Origin of schmucky

From schmuck + -y.

Words formed from schmucky

Questions about schmucky

What does schmucky mean?
Schmucky means characteristic of a schmuck.
What part of speech is schmucky?
Schmucky is an adjective.

Words near schmucky in the dictionary

  1. schmucking
  2. schmucko
  3. schmuckos
  4. schmucks
  5. Schmucksville
  6. schmucky
  7. schmutter
  8. schmutters
  9. schmutz
  10. schmutzy
  11. Schnabel

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