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shmekl

shmekl noun: a penis.

Noun

shmekl

  1. (slang, vulgar) a penis
    • Here, Leon, put on your bathrobe. It's not nice talking to a young lady with your shmekl hanging out.1993, Carl Reiner, All Kinds of Love, page 117
    • Look, virtuous or depraved, there’s no law against a man making a living starring in films in which he sticks his shmekl into anything that moves, and possibly things that don't.2011, Scott Sherman, Bad for the Jews, page 93
  2. (derogatory, slang) a fool, a jerk, a contemptible person
    • And then a year later some young American-born shmekl who doesn't know the first thing about Hebrew, who obviously hasn't devoted his life to it — I had never even heard of him then — comes along and translates “The Yemenite Girl” into English.1978, Curt Leviant, The Yemenite Girl, page 110
    • There were people in Israel working all their lives in politics, and here was this rich young shmekl (‘little prick’) from Australia, a gvir, suddenly become’s ^([sic]) the Rebbe’s emissary!2000, David Bernstein, Diamonds & Demons: The Joseph Gutnick Story, page 80

Origin of shmekl

Borrowing from Yiddish שמעקל (shmekl), diminutive of שמאָק (shmok), “penis; contemptible person”. Compare schmuck.

Questions about shmekl

What does shmekl mean?
Shmekl means a penis.
What part of speech is shmekl?
Shmekl is a noun.

Words near shmekl in the dictionary

  1. shmegegge
  2. shmegegges
  3. shmegeggies
  4. shmegeggy
  5. shmek
  6. shmekl
  7. shmeks
  8. shmendrick
  9. shmendricks
  10. shmendrik
  11. shmendriks

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