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schmendrik U.S. slang.|ˈʃmɛndrɪk|
Also schmendrick, shmendrik.
[The name of a character in an operetta by Abraham Goldfaden (1840–1908).]
A contemptible, foolish or immature person; an upstart, a ‘sucker’.
1944M. Samuel Harvest in Desert xii. 115 The colonists called the workers Shmendriks, tatterdemalions, n'er-do-wells. 1951A. Hirschfeld Show Business is No Business 47 A schmendrick with a noodle for a brain. 1970S. Ellin Bind xxx. 151 This boy is no shmendrik... Believe me, he knows from the real thing. 1976L. Deighton Twinkle, twinkle, Little Spy x. 93 Maybe if I'd been at college with Andrei Bekuv, I could even feel sorry for that schmendrik. |