Definition of Schmo

1. Noun. (Yiddish) a jerk.

Exact synonyms: Schmuck, Shmo, Shmuck
Category relationships: Yiddish
Generic synonyms: Dork, Jerk

Definition of Schmo

1. Noun. A stupid or obnoxious person. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Schmo

1. a stupid person [n SCHMOES or SCHMOS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Schmo

schmears
schmeck
schmecks
schmeer
schmeered
schmeering
schmeers
schmegegge
schmelz
schmelze
schmelzes
schmendrick
schmiederite
schmitterite
schmo (current term)
schmock
schmocks
schmoe
schmoes
schmoos
schmoose
schmoosed
schmooseoisie
schmooses
schmoosing
schmooz
schmooze
schmoozed
schmoozefest

Literary usage of Schmo

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... about 1860; the ^Austrian School," Carl Menger, Bohm-Bawerk, about 1870; the professorial socialists, or the Ethical School, schmo! ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"On r way back into Brandenburg terri- r they set fire to the village of schmo- »dorf. Wherever they passed they ed out the peasants, and made them troy the ..."

3. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Amos and Hosea by William Rainey Harper (1905)
"schmo. schmoller, Exposition of the Books of Hosea and Amos in Lange's Bibelwerk (1872; transl. by JF McCurdy [Hosea] and TW Chambers [Amos], 1874). ..."

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