Dictionary

schmucky en · ADJ

Etymology

From schmuck + -y.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, slang) Characteristic of a schmuck.
   • [Jack Nicholson's character Jonathan:] Bad vibrations? Sandy, I love you, but you're a schmuck. You were always young, Sandy, open. You were schmucky a lot of the time, but maybe schmuckiness is what you need to stay young and open. 1971, Jules Feiffer's screenplay for Mike Nichols's film Carnal Knowledge
   • I think their principles are very admirable, and Jains, I mean, all I can say, Martha, I don’t know every Jain in the world and I’m sure there are some real schmucky Jains, but I just know that they are, are highly, generally, highly respected and known for being really upstanding people because if you did take these principles to heart and lived by them I think you would be, you know, we’re none of us are perfect but I think it would lead you... 2015, 1:06:13 from the start, in Believe It or Not - Jainism, Rabbi Gail Nord, YouTube: Gail Nord:

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Deriveds

schmuckiness