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schmuckiness

noun

Etymology

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

  1. borrowed from שמאָק
  2. suffixed as schmucky — “schmuck + y”
  3. suffixed as schmuckiness — “schmucky + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state of being schmucky, of being a schmuck

    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.
    • [Jack Nicholson's character Jonathan:] 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for schmuckiness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA