Learn More About schmuck. Time Traveler for schmuck The first known use of schmuck was in See more words from the same year. Statistics for schmuck Look-up Popularity.
Style: MLA. English Language Learners Definition of schmuck. Get Word of the Day daily email! Test Your Vocabulary. Test your visual vocabulary with our question challenge! Love words? Guy 2: Your a Shmuck! An illiterate person who has no common sense and no self worth with no friends who is a disgrace to all society.
I think I should whack 'em. See synonyms for schmuck on Thesaurus. We could talk until we're blue in the face about this quiz on words for the color "blue," but we think you should take the quiz and find out if you're a whiz at these colorful terms.
Also shmuck. Words nearby schmuck schmierkase , Schmitt , Schmitt trigger , schmo , schmooze , schmuck , Sch. Words related to schmuck asshole , ass , birdbrain , blockhead , bonehead , boob , bore , buffoon , clod , clown , cretin , dimwit , dolt , dope , dunce , dunderhead , fathead , goose , idiot , ignoramus. Schlong , when used as a noun, is a Yiddish word for penis—and a pretty vulgar one at that.
But when used as a verb, is it even a word? Should it be considered a misogynistic insult? A malapropism? Probably the most common schm- Yiddishism is schmuck. Another word for male genitals, schmuck is used all the time in English to describe someone who is foolish, obnoxious or detestable. Actor Harrison Ford made headlines last spring when, while landing his small plane at a California airport, he unwittingly touched down on the taxiway instead of the runway.
While pretty much everyone—even non-Jews—knows that schmuck is Yiddish, few know much about its etymology. The word derives from shtekele Yiddish for little stick , which turned into shmekle a baby-talk equivalent of pee-wee or weenie , according to Michael Wex, author of the popular Yiddish primer Born to Kvetch.
Just as shtekele became shmekle, shtok —a word for stick or club—became schmuck. English speakers like Ford, who treat the word as a benign throwaway, have no idea how vulgar the word is considered among Yiddish speakers. Sometimes, the workarounds can be equally—though differently—offensive. But if you leave only a penny? The many Yiddish words for male genitalia can be confusing to English speakers. Like schmuck, putz is also more offensive in Yiddish. The two words are similar, but not identical.
But while some of these words are vulgar, others are clinical, humorous, conversational, euphemistic. There is a word to fit seemingly every context: In polite conversation, the term of choice is eyver.
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