shmutzik
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shmutzik (SHMUUTS-ik) listen

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Definitions

  • adj. Dirty, filthy.

  • adj. Indecent, vulgar.

Example Sentences

  • "Change your shirt; it's all shmutzik!"

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  • "When clothes are that shmutzik, it hardly pays to wash them." (Weiser)

  • “This book is too shmutzik for even a public-school class to read." (Weiser)

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Languages of Origin

  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • שמוציק shmutsik

      • Who Uses This

      • Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

      • 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).
      • Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish, by Chaim Weiser (Northvale, 1995).
      • Yinglish: A Lexicon of Judeo-English by Aliza Bulow
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      Alternative Spellings

      shmutzig, schmutzig, schmutzik, shmutzike, shmutzige, schmutzige, schmutzike

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