shmekl
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Here, Leon, put on your bathrobe. It's not nice talking to a young lady with your shmekl hanging out."
- "Look, virtuous or depraved, there’s no law against a man making a living starring in films in which he sticks his shmekl into anything that moves, and possibly things that don't."
- "And then a year later some young American-born shmekl who doesn't know the first thing about Hebrew, who obviously hasn't devoted his life to it — I had never even heard of him then — comes along and translates “The Yemenite Girl” into English."
- "There were people in Israel working all their lives in politics, and here was this rich young shmekl (‘little prick’) from Australia, a gvir, suddenly become’s ^([sic]) the Rebbe’s emissary!"
Etymology
Borrowing from Yiddish שמעקל (shmekl), diminutive of שמאָק (shmok), “penis; contemptible person”. Compare schmuck.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: שמעקל