schmuckiness

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schmuckiness

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From schmucky + -ness. First use appears c. 1961 as shmuckiness.

noun shmuckiness

  1. derogatory, slang, uncountable The state of being schmucky, of being a schmuck; jerkiness, stupidity, foolishness, ineptitude. But on his second tour of the housing developments - that's when the first little bit of schmuckiness started creeping in.

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@misc{schmuckiness_2026,
  title = {schmuckiness},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/schmuckiness},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}