schmeckle

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noun

A penis.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

nounschmeckle (plural schmeckles)

plural schmeckles · alternative schmeckel

  1. JewishUSslangA penis.

    "A secret Litvak with his nose in the air," is how my zaydee put it, "and his schmeckle in that shiksa queen when he's not with his whoors."

    2001, Philip Levine, The Bread of Time, page 97
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    "There's no hot water," Marty said. "Now you know why no one takes a shower. Those showers will give you pneumonia. You'll have icicles hanging from your schmeckle."

    1994, Tom Boswell, Glenn Stout, editors, The Best American Sports Writing, page 65

    Listen to him, more nostalgia! My poor schmeckle, talk about nostalgia! It comes up once a year, like Ground Hog Day. The last time I made love was July tenth, Nineteen Seventy-One.

    2015, Stephen Fife, editor, Duo!: The Best Scenes for Mature Actors

    Kiss would continue forever if it weren’t for the inconvenient path of time’s arrow – although, as Simmons puts it, “As long as your schmeckle works, you feel immortal.”

    2023 September 14, Elmo Keep, quoting Gene Simmons, “Gene Simmons on Kiss, sex and calling it quits: ‘As long as your schmeckle works, you feel immortal’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2023

Origin

  1. Yiddishשמאָק
  2. Yiddishשמעקל
  3. Englishschmeckle

From Yiddish שמעקל (shmekl), a diminutive of Yiddish שמאָק (shmok), from which schmuck is borrowed.

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Cite this entry
APA

schmeckle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/schmeckle

MLA

“schmeckle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/schmeckle. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “schmeckle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/schmeckle.

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