schmo
Pronunciations
schmo | (SHMOW) | listen |
Definitions
n. A fool; a jerk.
Example Sentences
He is such a schmoe that he believes everything he reads on the internet.
Languages of Origin
- Yiddish
- English
Etymology
May derive from שמאָק shmok 'schmuck'
- Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements
- Non-Jews: (words that have spread outside of Jewish networks)
- Great Britain
- South Africa
- Australia / New Zealand
- The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
- Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
- The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
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Alternative Spellings
schmoe, shmo, shmoe
Notes
Joe Schmoe is an 'average person; a nobody'
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