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schnook U.S. colloq.|ʃnʊk|
Also schnuck, shnook.
[app. Yiddish: perh. repr. Yiddish shnuk snout, or f. G. schnucke a small sheep.]
A dupe, a sucker; a simpleton, a ‘dope’; a pitiful wretch.
[1943S. J. Perelman Let. 7 Apr. in G. Marx Groucho Lett. (1967) 190 It's the story of a small schnükel of a barber who accidentally brings a statue of Venus to life.] 1948H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 757 Schnuck.., a customer easily persuaded, a sucker. 1955N. Mailer Deer Park xii. 136 I'd be making a stinking seven hundred and fifty a week now like all those poor exploited schnooks. 1959R. Chandler in Gardiner & Walker R. Chandler Speaking (1962) 262 Why does he want to see me so badly that he has to send a couple of shnooks after me? 1964S. Bellow Herzog 29 This shnook of a chiropodist—what a hellcat he married. 1975A. Bergman Hollywood & Le Vine xiii. 187 It was all pretty fascinating for a Sunnyside schnook like me. 1980W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 2 Aug. 8 To be self-conscious about the possibility of error..is to be a nerd, a schnook and a wimp. |