The story
- Yiddish · borrowed fromשמענדריק
- English todayschmendrick
From Yiddish שמענדריק (shmendrik), from the name of a character in the operetta Shmendrik, oder di komishe Chaseneh (Schmendrik, or The Comical Wedding; שמענדריק, אָדער, די קאָמישע חתונה) by Avrom Goldfaden.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.