Re: [chile-heads] RE: Schmuckendrops

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Wed, 9 Jul 1997 19:43:32 -0400 (EDT)

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I looked up Schmuck in my indefatigable (that's a $10 word!!!) slang
dictionery.T means "a detestable person; an obnoxioua man" (bastard or pri*k)
from Yiddish shmok "enis" literally, "ornament". Didn't we start out with
the family jewels? I think Wm. Safire or some writer in the Sunday NY Times
had a column devoted, in part, to schmuck recently.

Re: HarperCollin Reference Library, American Slang, Chapman, Ph.D., Editor

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