Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

schmucky

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: schmucky
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Characteristic of a schmuck.

Derogatory; Slang

Example Sentences

"[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."
"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..."

Etymology

From schmuck + -y.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: schmuck

Usage

Inflected Forms

more schmucky (comparative) most schmucky (superlative) shmucky (alternative)

Derived Forms

schmuckiness

Questions

What does schmucky mean?: Characteristic of a schmuck.
Where does schmucky come from?: From schmuck + -y.

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