schmucky

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adjective

Characteristic of a schmuck.

Scrabble 24

Meanings

adjectiveschmucky (comparative more schmucky, superlative most schmucky)

comparative more schmucky · superlative most schmucky · alternative shmucky

  1. derogatoryslangCharacteristic of a schmuck.

    [Jack Nicholson's character Jonathan:] Bad vibrations? Sandy, I love you, but you're a schmuck. You were always young, Sandy, open. You were schmucky a lot of the time, but maybe schmuckiness is what you need to stay young and open.

    1971, Jules Feiffer's screenplay for Mike Nichols's film Carnal Knowledge
    1 more example

    I think their principles are very admirable, and Jains, I mean, all I can say, Martha, I don’t know every Jain in the world and I’m sure there are some real schmucky Jains, but I just know that they are, are highly, generally, highly respected and known for being really upstanding people because if you did take these principles to heart and lived by them I think you would be, you know, we’re none of us are perfect but I think it would lead you...

    2015, 1:06:13 from the start, in Believe It or Not - Jainism, Rabbi Gail Nord, YouTube: Gail Nord

Origin

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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