schmuck

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A jerk

   A jerk; a person who is unlikable, detestable, or contemptible because they are stupid, foolish, clumsy, oafish, inept, malicious, or unpleasant.

   • “You're born a schmuck and you'll die a schmuck. Welcome to hell, idiot.”
2. 2

   A deplorable, pitiful person.

   • poor schmuck
   • 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.
3. 3

   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.
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   1. 4

      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.
      • “She schmucked three deer on M-95,” del Olmo said. “I was two minutes behind her. Man, she blew them up! […]
      • Everyone gathered around the cake as Mitch and Liz prepared to cut the cake. She took a small piece in her hand, and Mitch said, "What are you doing with that, babe?" and she schmucked it into his mouth. He did the same right back.
   2. 5

      A surname from German.

The neighborhood

• neighborschmeckle
• neighborschlemiel