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schmuck¹

  • /ˈʃmʌk/
  • /ˈʃmʊk/ Ireland, Northern England

Rhymes with -ʌk

Where it comes from

From Yiddish שמאָק (shmok, “penis, fool”).

noun schmucks · schmock · shmock · shmok · shmuck · shmuk

  1. Jewish, US, derogatory, slang 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 to

    Similar: assbag, assbreath, assbucket, asschunk, asscunt, assface, assfag, assfaggot, assfuck, assfucker, asshat, asshead

  2. Jewish, US, derogatory, slang A deplorable, pitiful person. poor schmuck

verb schmucks · schmucking · schmucked · schmock · shmock

  1. Jewish, US, derogatory, intransitive, rare, slang 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.
  2. Jewish, US, derogatory, rare, slang, transitive 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.

Schmuck²

proper noun

  1. A surname from German.

Translations

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noun jerk; unlikable, stupid, foolish, malicious, or unpleasant person

DeutschSchmock, Arsch, Trottel, Depp, Dussel
Русскийчмо čmo, шмо́к šmók
עבריתשמוק shmók

noun deplorable, pitiful person

DeutschSchlucker, armer Schlucker

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@misc{schmuck_2026,
  title = {schmuck},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/schmuck},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}