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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--schnook This week's theme: Words from Yiddish. schnook (shnook) noun A stupid, easily deceived person. [From Yiddish shnuk (snout) or from German schnucke (a small sheep).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "A gun-toting schnook became an embarrassing crook when he robbed a Spokane dollar store Sunday. Seriously, if you're going to commit a Class A felony, you might as well rob a Class A joint." Frank Sennett; Dollar-Store Thief Bucks Common Sense; Spokesman Review (Washington); Mar 9, 2007. X-Bonus I come from a people who gave the Ten Commandments to the world. Time has come to strengthen them by three additional ones, which we ought to adopt and commit ourselves to: thou shall not be a perpetrator; thou shall not be a victim; and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander. -Yehuda Bauer, professor (b. 1926)

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