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SHMUCK

Dictionary entry overview: What does shmuck mean?

• SHMUCK (noun)
The noun SHMUCK has 1 sense:

1. (Yiddish) a jerk

Familiarity information: SHMUCK used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SHMUCK (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

(Yiddish) a jerk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

schmo; schmuck; shmo; shmuck

Hypernyms ("shmuck" 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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