schnook
/ʃnʊk
/noun US informal
A fool: just a poor schnook who gave her husband a lift...
- Yes, he was visiting the senate committee again today, helping them understand why he's still got 66 million dollars and the schnooks who worked for him are selling pencils from a tin cup on the street.
- After seeing the collection reinstalled in that spectacular building, only a true philistine - or a schnook - would think it's not worth it.
- Harding, whose funeral train ran the length of the continent with people lining the tracks, roosts in history's attic, a presidential schnook.
Origin
1940s: perhaps from German Schnucke 'small sheep' or from Yiddish shnuk 'snout'.