schmeckle

English

Alternative forms

• schmeckel

Etymology

From Yiddish שמעקל (shmekl), a diminutive of Yiddish שמאָק (shmok), from which schmuck is borrowed.

Noun

schmeckle (plural schmeckles)

1. (chiefly Ashkenazi Jewish) penis
   • 1994, Tom Boswell, Glenn Stout, editors, The Best American Sports Writing, page 65:

     "There's no hot water," Marty said. "Now you know why no one takes a shower. Those showers will give you pneumonia. You'll have icicles hanging from your schmeckle."

   • 2001, Philip Levine, The Bread of Time, page 97:

     "A secret Litvak with his nose in the air," is how my zaydee put it, "and his schmeckle in that shiksa queen when he's not with his whoors."

   • 2015, Stephen Fife, editor, Duo!: The Best Scenes for Mature Actors:

     Listen to him, more nostalgia! My poor schmeckle, talk about nostalgia! It comes up once a year, like Ground Hog Day. The last time I made love was July tenth, Nineteen Seventy-One.

   • 2023 September 14, Elmo Keep, quoting Gene Simmons, “Gene Simmons on Kiss, sex and calling it quits: ‘As long as your schmeckle works, you feel immortal’”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Kiss would continue forever if it weren’t for the inconvenient path of time’s arrow – although, as Simmons puts it, “As long as your schmeckle works, you feel immortal.”