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- alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of schmuckiness.
“He’s a patent attorney,” Linda explained. / “Does that mean you’ve got the trademark on shmuckiness registered?” Adrienne said. / “Moth-er,” said Linda, “I love him. He loves me. We’re going to be very happy.”
1982, Leslie Tonner, chapter 18, in Female Complaints, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published June 1983, →ISBN, pages 246–2472 more examples
For that matter, the Realist would be right in there with the AFL-CIO and the NAM and the New York Post and the National Review; I would suggest that a better test of the unanimity principle might be the editorial positions taken by the insiders on whether Khrushchev’s act of cosmic shmuckiness should be followed by Kennedy’s ditto.
1961 December, Paul Krassner, “The Daily Lie by James Higgins”, in Paul Krassner, editor, The Realist, number 30, New York, N.Y.: Realist Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, editor’s note, page 15, column 2His voice rising in pitch, his dark eyes bulging in rage (Miles’s novel gets rejected), Giamatti is physically explosive in this movie—at one point, in an act of supreme self-loathing, he pours the spit bucket into his mouth and all over his body. The scene is Shakespearean in its emotional violence. When Giamatti goes over the top, he transcends Everyman shmuckiness and attains acting immortality.
2004 October 25, David Denby, “Drinking and Driving”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Nov 2020
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