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- Yiddish · borrowed fromשמ־
- English todayschm-
Borrowed from Yiddish שמ־ (shm-), imitative of many Yiddish words such as schmaltz or schmuck.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
schm-
Today it means: Used to form a reduplicated rhyming compound of any word in order to express disparagement, dismissal, or derision. Full definition →
Yiddish שמ־