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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Schmuck, shmuk #50402 12/20/2001 2:12 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Definitely two different words here. German Schmuck does mean jewel and Schmuckler is a jeweler. The Yiddish word shmuk (Yiddish is written with Hebrew characters and I can transliterate it any way I want to) is likely from the Polish word smok, meaning snake or tail. YCLIU@http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=schmuck Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted putz wwh 12/19/2001 6:38 PM Re: p*tz Keiva 12/19/2001 6:49 PM Max Quordlepleen 12/19/2001 6:53 PM Re: putz wwh 12/19/2001 7:11 PM Re: putz wwh 12/19/2001 7:27 PM Good schm*ck / bad schm*ck wofahulicodoc 12/19/2001 11:54 PM Re: Schmuck, shmuk Faldage 12/20/2001 2:12 PM Re: p*tz Keiva 12/20/2001 4:00 AM Re: putz TEd Remington 12/19/2001 7:30 PM Re: putz wwh 12/19/2001 8:16 PM Re: p*tz Keiva 12/19/2001 8:20 PM Re: p*tz wwh 12/19/2001 8:28 PM Re: putz tsuwm 12/19/2001 8:28 PM Re: putz wwh 12/19/2001 8:30 PM Re: putz tsuwm 12/19/2001 8:36 PM Re: putz wwh 12/19/2001 9:00 PM Re: putz Rapunzel 12/19/2001 9:03 PM Re: putz wwh 12/19/2001 9:14 PM Re: p*tz Keiva 12/20/2001 12:06 AM Re: p*tz tsuwm 12/20/2001 3:55 AM Re: p*tz Keiva 12/20/2001 4:32 AM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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