shmoon.
/ʃmuː/ U.S.
A fabulous animal invented by the U.S. cartoonist Al Capp in 1948. It is small and round, and ready to fulfil immediately any of man's material wants. Also, a model or toy version of this animal. Also in combinations, as shmoo-like adj.
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1948 Newsweek 12 July 56/3 Scheduled for appearance in August, the nature of the ‘Shmoo’ is a well-kept Capp secret.
1948 Times-Herald (Washington, D.C.) 25 Aug. 32/2 Too bad this fine, young specimen done heard th' call o' th' shmoo.
1948 Sun (Baltimore) 9 Dec. 16/3 The Berlin airlift..has ferried everything from coal to shmoos.
1964 R. T. Peterson et al. Birds i. 13 Certainly they [sc. kiwis] are the most unbird-like of all birds, shmoo-like creatures shaped like large, hairy footballs.
1978 Washington Post 8 Sept. a. 13/1 Cloning would..even put an end to world hunger. Those who can discuss these things make them sound like Al Capp's ‘shmoos’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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