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To: Tony Viola who wrote (8952)	9/18/2000 5:07:32 PM
From: Paul Ma	Read Replies (1) of 275872

I guess I'm the schmuck of the day. Did you know that the original meaning of the word schmuck is gold? Oh is it? Pulled from OED Schmuck schmuck §mAk (IPA §m^k). slang. Also schmock §mo(hook)k (IPA §mok), shmock, shmuck. [Yiddish; originally a taboo-word meaning `penis'.] A contemptible or objectionable person, an idiot. Hence schmucky a., objectionable, obnoxious. 1892 I. Zangwill Childr. of Ghetto II. i. xvi. 45 Becky's private refusal to entertain the addresses of such a Shmuck. 1945 G. Marx Let. 16 Feb. in Groucho Lett. (1967) 51 He doesn't know I can write, in fact, he thinks I'm a complete schmuck. 1958 F. Norman Bang to Rights iii. 132 But as I'm no shmock I deside to play along with her. 1963 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 10 July 9/1 Only the pay-TV concept..can break the hold of the `Madison Ave. schmucks, the Gestapo of the television industry'. 1967 D. Skirrow I was following this Girl xxxix. 241, I know that one schmucky swallow doesn't have to spoil the barrel. 1971 B. Malamud Tenants 50 Art is the glory and only a shmuck thinks otherwise. 1972 J. Caine Hamlet, My Boy xi. 161 As soon as the shmock of a witness offered to testify on television. 1975 Harpers & Queen May 128/3 Schmucky agents and flacks and show-biz parasites. 1978 M. Puzo Fools Die xxi. 239 Cully felt some anger that this guy was treating Merlyn like such a schmuck. 1981 Times 2 July 15/2 Mary Gordon is extremely funny about the beautiful Robert..and about the Woody Allen-like schmuck in the apartment below whom she sleeps with. Paul Ma the linguist!

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