TEdR - You seem to have misquoted the story in your translation of it (which may have been intentional)...but just in case: The first definition Leo Rosten gives is as an obscene word for the "male reproductive organ", and it was the SINGLE "schmuck" that was pointed out as the defining characteristic when the sex of the animal was in question...not to be confused with the gentleman on top {First pocketbooks printing-WSP-May 1970}

(pps This post has been altered from it's original form, and a personal I blew it apology has been entered)