schmuck
IPA: ʃmˈʌk
noun
- (colloquial, derogatory, US) A jerk; a person who is unlikable, detestable, or contemptible because he or she is stupid, foolish, clumsy, oafish, inept, malicious, or unpleasant.
- (colloquial, derogatory, New York City) A deplorable, pitiful person.
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Examples of "schmuck" in Sentences
- Based on your love of using the word schmuck, it must be one or the other.
- I got $5 that says that stupid schmuck is gong to wind up sueing someone over this.
- He's a friggin 'schmuck, and I will campaign even harder to defeat Kennedy than almost any other Republican, because he's an opportunist.
- "He proposed a concept which he called schmuck insurance, which was to protect us from looking foolish," Ackman, 43, said in a deposition for the lawsuit.
- I don't know why I'm even bothering to feed the trolls, but technically "schmuck" is Yiddish, though its prejorative use has been widely adpoted into American nomcenlature.
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