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SHMO

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: shmoes   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Yiddish) a jerk

Synonyms:

schmo; schmuck; shmo; shmuck

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("shmo" is a kind of...):

dork; jerk (a dull stupid fatuous person)

Domain category:

Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)

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