Etymology

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Yiddish שמאַטע
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The story

  1. Yiddish · derived fromשמאַטע“rag”
  2. English todayschmutter

From Yiddish שמאַטע (shmate, “rag”).

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.