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schmegeggy U.S. slang.|ʃməˈgɛgɪ|
Also schmagagi, shmegegge, etc.
[Origin obscure; see quots. 1968, 1970 for sense 1.]
1. A contemptible person, an idiot.
1964S. Bellow Herzog 29 He better get it this afternoon, that ludicrous schmegeggy! 1968L. Rosten Joys of Yiddish 353 Shmegegge,..Ameridish slang. Origin: unknown; probably, a dazzling onomatopoetic child of the Lower East Side. 1. An unadmirable, petty person. 2. A maladroit, untalented type. 3. A sycophant, a shlepper, a whiner, a drip. 1970L. M. Feinsilver Taste of Yiddish 121 Shmegegge (or shmegeggi), a galoot, a bird-brain, a stupid character... The disdain involved prompts me to suggest that the term may be a combination of two other words for ‘fool’: the vulgar shmok..and yeke or its German antecedent Gecke. 1971Observer 23 May 36/3 He says he's a schlemiel which is..better than being a schmagogy... Schlemiels..drop things and..they drop on schmagogys.
2. Rubbish, nonsense.
1968L. Rosten Joys of Yiddish 353 Shmegegge,..a lot of ‘hot air’, ‘baloney’, a cockamamy story. ‘Don't give me that shmegegge!’ 1970L. M. Feinsilver Taste of Yiddish 121 Schmegegge (or shmegeggi),..as picked up in American theatrical circles, this is sometimes used in the sense of ‘malarkey’ or ‘bushwa’. 1973Boyd & Parkes Dark Number ii. 23 There was a bunch of students... They had the lot, the full schmagagi: girls got up like camp grannies..boys in kaftans. |