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To: Alighieri who wrote (217468)	2/4/2005 3:34:08 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571001

Its Yiddish.......a bastardization of Hebrew and I think German. It means a jerk....a zero. I went to a high school that was half Jewish. <g> Its german origin is "ornament"..the yiddish use is literally "dick" in pejorative slang. I knew about the dick part, not the ornament part. However in Websters, the definition is a jerk. But...the word is SHMUCK, with an H...I was goofing on you. Actually, its spelled schmuck.......so much for the language class. I was in a hurry when I posted.....sorry for the misspelling. ted