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It's taken from Yiddish, which took it from German.
by gowld 4y ago
It's taken from Yiddish, which took it from German.
- daveslash 4y agoFrom Yiddish? I didn't know that. Interesting and Thank You. A few years ago, I used the word "Schmuck", and someone asked me if I was Jewish (I'm not). I didn't realize that "Schmuck" was also a Yiddish word until then. I looked it up, and I didn't realize that some Yiddish speaking people consider it to be obscene profanity! So now I use a little more sparingly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmuck_(pejorative) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmuck_(pejorative)