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schnook /ʃnʊk /noun US informalA 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.
Origin1940s: perhaps from German Schnucke 'small sheep' or from Yiddish shnuk 'snout'. Rhymesbetook, book, brook, Brooke, Chinook, chook, Coke, cook, Cooke, crook, forsook, Gluck, hook, look, mistook, nook, partook, rook, schtuck, Shilluk, shook, Tobruk, took, undercook, undertook |