Schmuck (pejorative)

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Schmuck is most often used in English as a pejorative or insult, meaning a stupid, foolish or detestable person.

Schmuck entered English as a borrowed word from Yiddish, where it is an obscene term literally meaning a foreskin or head of a penis, and an insult. In his famous cultural lexicon, The Joys of Yiddish, Leo Rosten lists the Yiddish schmuck as related to the Slovene word, šmok, meaning "a fool, an innocent, a gullible dolt".^{[verification needed]}

Another closely related word is the Polish "ćmok" or "ćwok", meaning an idiot or a fool.^{[citation needed]}