• n. 笨人
• n. (Schmuck)人名；(德、葡)施穆克

來自 shmuck,來自依地語 shmok,陰莖，來自德語 Schmuck,珠寶，寶貝，來自低地德語 smuck, 優雅的，漂亮的，來自 PIE*smuk,光滑的，詞源同 smock.該詞在依地語為極端粗俗語，字面 意思即男人的寶貝，等同于漢語罵人的“傻屌”。字母-s-在德語和依地語音變為-sch-.

schmuck

schmuck: see shemozzle

schmuck (n.)

also shmuck, "contemptible person," 1892, from East Yiddish shmok, literally "penis," probably from Old Polish smok "grass snake, dragon," and likely not the same word as German Schmuck "jewelry, adornments," which is related to Low German smuck "supple, tidy, trim, elegant," and to Old Norse smjuga "slip, step through" (see smock).

In Jewish homes, the word was "regarded as so vulgar as to be taboo" [Leo Rosten, "The Joys of Yiddish," 1968] and Lenny Bruce wrote that saying it on stage got him arrested on the West Coast "by a Yiddish undercover agent who had been placed in the club several nights running to determine if my use of Yiddish terms was a cover for profanity." Euphemized as schmoe, which was the source of Al Capp's cartoon strip creature the shmoo.

"[A]dditional associative effects from German schmuck 'jewels, decoration' cannot be excluded (cross-linguistically commonplace slang: cf. Eng. 'family jewels')" [Mark R.V. Southern, "Contagious Couplings: Transmission of Expressives in Yiddish Echo Phrases," 2005]. But the English phrase refers to the testicles and is a play on words, the "family" element being the essential ones. Words for "decoration" seem not to be among the productive sources of European "penis" slang terms.

1. He's such a schmuck!

他真蠢！

來自《權威詞典》

2. What schmuck would fly a plane into the Trade Center?

什么樣的蠢貨會把飛機開到世貿中心 呢 ?

來自電影對白

3. I called in from my body shop, and Jericho made me sound like a schmuck.

我從我的車身修理廠打來的, 耶利哥在我聽來就是個蠢貨.

來自電影對白

4. Before long, she realized she had married a real schmuck.

沒多久, 她就發現她嫁了一個道道地地的討厭鬼.

來自互聯網

5. Sandra: Isn't Lisa his girlfriend? What a schmuck!

珊卓拉: 他的女朋友不是麗莎 嗎 ?真是個大爛人.

來自互聯網