Meanings
- slangvulgara penis
Here, Leon, put on your bathrobe. It's not nice talking to a young lady with your shmekl hanging out.
1993, Carl Reiner, All Kinds of Love, page 1171 more example
Look, virtuous or depraved, there’s no law against a man making a living starring in films in which he sticks his shmekl into anything that moves, and possibly things that don't.
2011, Scott Sherman, Bad for the Jews, page 93 - derogatoryslanga fool, a jerk, a contemptible person
There were people in Israel working all their lives in politics, and here was this rich young shmekl (‘little prick’) from Australia, a gvir, suddenly become’s ^([sic]) the Rebbe’s emissary!
2000, David Bernstein, Diamonds & Demons: The Joseph Gutnick Story, page 801 more example
And then a year later some young American-born shmekl who doesn't know the first thing about Hebrew, who obviously hasn't devoted his life to it — I had never even heard of him then — comes along and translates “The Yemenite Girl” into English.
1978, Curt Leviant, The Yemenite Girl, page 110
Origin
- Yiddishשמעקל
- Englishshmekl
Borrowing from Yiddish שמעקל (shmekl), diminutive of שמאָק (shmok), “penis; contemptible person”. Compare schmuck.
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