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Definition: Schmuck |
SchmuckNoun1. Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: SchmuckSynonyms: creep (n), spook (n), weirdie (n), weirdo (n), weirdy (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Schmuck |
| Non-English Usage: "Schmuck" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. German (adornment, array, decoration, embellishment, emblazonment, emblazonments, jewellery, jewelry, natty, neat, ornament, ornamentation, panoply, saucy, smart, Spruce, sprucely, tidy, trappings, trig, trim, trinket). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Piece of advice: Lose the smile, it makes you look like a schmuck. (Swimming With Sharks; writing credit: George Huang) And this schmuck is gambling (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) What's your problem, Schmuck! (Liar Liar; writing credit: Paul Guay; Stephen Mazur) A schmuck named Nietzsche once wrote: 'Anything that's done out of love is beyond good and evil (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner) A schmuck on wheels (Goodfellas; writing credit: Nicholas Pileggi) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Blockhead; bonehead; dolt; donkey; dope; dunce; fool; halfwit; idiot; imbecile; jackass; jerk; nincompoop; nitwit; numskull; schmuck; simpleton; twerp; twit; ass; birdbrain; blockhead; bonehead; boob; bore; buffoon; butt; chump; clod; clown; cretin; dimwi. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Schmuck" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Schmuck" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "schmuck" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Schmuck | Last name | 400 | 19,440 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
schmuck | 73 |
geschenke schmuck | 4 |
definition schmuck | 3 |
hannover piercing schmuck | 3 |
nippel schmuck | 3 |
intim schmuck | 2 |
schmuck silber | 2 |
edelsteine ringe schmuck | 2 |
kaufen schmuck | 2 |
fenster schmuck.com | 2 |
altmann schmuck | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "schmuck"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | Trottel (blithering idiot, booby, clown, dolt, dope, dumbbell, idiot, jerk, lubbers, moron, mug, nana, nincompoop, ninny, oaf, rube, sap, softies, sucker, twit, Wally, zombie), Depp (crumb, dimwit, ding-a-ling, schnook, twit), beknackte (schmo), bekloppte (schmo). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uckschmay.(various references) | |
Russian | олух (boob, booby, dunderhead, fathead, fat-head, gander, gowk, jobbernowl, jolterhead, loggerhead, meathead, nitwit, numskull, owl, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap-head). (various references) | |
Swedish | typ (cat, cuss, customer, fellow, Mark, merchant, model, Mold, mortal, mould, party, pattern, sort, type, variety), klanskalle. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "schmuck": schmucks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "schmuck" (pronounced shmu"k) |
| 3 | -m u" k | amok, amuck, muck. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-h-k-m-s-u" | |
-1 letter: chucks, shmuck. | |
-2 letters: chuck, chums, hucks, mucks, shuck. | |
-3 letters: chum, cusk, huck, hums, husk, much, muck, mush, musk, scum, such, suck. | |
-4 letters: cum, hum, mus, sum. | |
-5 letters: hm, mu, sh, uh, um, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-h-k-m-s-u" | |
+1 letter: schmucks. | |
+2 letters: chipmucks. | |
+4 letters: chucklesome. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Sounds 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Frequency | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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