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schmucky

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Etymology

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From schmuck +‎ -y.

Adjective

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schmucky (comparative more schmucky, superlative most schmucky)

  1. (slang, derogatory) Characteristic of a schmuck.
    • 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.
    • 2015, 1:06:13 from the start, in Believe It or Not - Jainism, Rabbi Gail Nord[1], YouTube: Gail Nord:
      I think their principles are very admirable, and Jains, I mean, all I can say, Martha, I don’t know every Jain in the world and I’m sure there are some real schmucky Jains, but I just know that they are, are highly, generally, highly respected and known for being really upstanding people because if you did take these principles to heart and lived by them I think you would be, you know, we’re none of us are perfect but I think it would lead you...

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