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To: nihil who wrote (57330)	10/6/1999 12:10:00 PM
From: jbe	Respond to of 108807

Meaning of Schmuck --- again. Nihil, you write: "Schmuck" is Old German meaning penis. See any decent English dictionary. Here's a decent English dictionary (American Heritage): Yiddish schmuck, "penis," from German schmuck, "ornament," from Middle Low German smuck. Looks to me as if 'twas the Jews who decided that a penis was an ornament. Yiddish-speakers have told me (down with dictionaries, anyway!) that the term "schmuck" in practice, was narrowed still further, to mean prepuce -- (that which is cut off at circumcision). After all, Yiddish already has all kinds of other words for the full tool -- putz, schlong, etc.