schmuckiness
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From schmucky + -ness. First use appears c. 1966. See cite below.
Noun
[edit]schmuckiness (uncountable)
- (slang, derogatory) The state of being schmucky, of being a schmuck; jerkiness, stupidity, foolishness, ineptitude.
- 1966, Realist Association (publisher), The Realist[1], numbers 64-85, page 19:
- But on his second tour of the housing developments - that's when the first little bit of schmuckiness started creeping in.
- 1971, Jules Feiffer's screenplay for Mike Nichols's film Carnal Knowledge:
- [Jack Nicholson's character Jonathan:] Bad vibrations? Sandy, I love you, but you're a schmuck. You were always young, Sandy, open. You were schmucky a lot of the time, but maybe schmuckiness is what you need to stay young and open.