What Does The Yiddish Word Schmuck?
What Does The Yiddish Word Schmuck? Next we come to ‘schmuck’, which in English is a rather vulgar definition of a contemptible or foolish person – in other words, a jerk. In Yiddish the word ‘שמאָק’ (schmok) literally means ‘penis’. What does the name schmuck mean? German and Austrian: from Middle High German smuc ‘jewel’,