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schmo

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5 lettersPronunciation /ʃməʊ/Part of speech nounSorted chmosStarts with SEnds with O0 clues
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Definitions

  1. (Yiddish) a jerk

Word origin

From Yiddish, alteration of schmuck. Compare also Russian чмо (čmo, “jerk, schmuck”).

Used in a sentence

  • The poor schmo would immediately break down and confess that he did a lot of other bad things as well.
  • I'm just an average schmo
  • Of his early childhood, he told the Deseret News of Salt Lake City: “I'm a schmo. My family never made more than $25,000 a year. We're all bakers for generations.”

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