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SCHMUCK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does schmuck mean?
• SCHMUCK (noun)
The noun SCHMUCK has 1 sense:
1. (Yiddish) a jerk
Familiarity information: SCHMUCK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Yiddish) a jerk
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("schmuck" is a kind of...):
dork; jerk (a dull stupid fatuous person)
Domain category:
Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)
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