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Meanings of schmuck in English

Spanish
idiota

(Yiddish) a jerk.

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Usage of schmuck in English
1
Does providing your music for free make you a schmuck or smart?
The Irish Times
2
Not like that other schmuck who pulled in, right after you did.
More bitter than death: an emma fielding mystery
3
I know you're a schmuck, but this is stupid even for you.
Carrion comfort
4
She couldn't be serious about talking to this schmuck without a lawyer present.
Mistress of the game
5
Lately however, she'd developed a grudging affection for the little schmuck.
The witch of agnesi
6
Am I supposed to just marry any schmuck that comes along?
My horizontal life: a collection of one-night stands
7
All the while, the father is usually nowhere to be found, the schmuck.
Wired
8
Perhaps he feels like a schmuck for having driven Rose from his life.
206 Bones
9
The trick is when the unexpected happens, like that schmuck in the SUV.
Wired
10
What the fuck you bustin' my balls about, you dumb schmuck?
A quiet vendetta
11
Though it made him a complete and utter schmuck, his pulse jumped in response.
Stolen heat
12
Have a moment of silence for the pathetic schmuck, and get on with things.
Flesh and blood
13
You can't believe some schmuck in a suit is actually paying you to do this.
The Irish Times
14
Its reception area has wood-patterned linoleum and a schmuck in a tuxedo playing a piano.
Beat the reaper: a novel
15
So soon after Allan...What kind of schmuck am I?
The lake
16
It's some schmuck from Burbank, probably boinking his secretary.
The next to die
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