schmuck
英 [?m?k]
美
- n. 笨人
- n. (Schmuck)人名；(德、葡)施穆克
中文詞源
schmuck 笨蛋，傻瓜
來(lái)自 shmuck,來(lái)自依地語(yǔ) shmok,陰莖，來(lái)自德語(yǔ) Schmuck,珠寶，寶貝，來(lái)自低地德語(yǔ) smuck, 優(yōu)雅的，漂亮的，來(lái)自 PIE*smuk,光滑的，詞源同 smock.該詞在依地語(yǔ)為極端粗俗語(yǔ)，字面 意思即男人的寶貝，等同于漢語(yǔ)罵人的“傻屌”。字母-s-在德語(yǔ)和依地語(yǔ)音變?yōu)?sch-.
英文詞源
- schmuck
- schmuck: see shemozzle
- schmuck (n.)
- also shmuck, "contemptible person," 1892, from East Yiddish shmok, literally "penis," probably from Old Polish smok "grass snake, dragon," and likely not the same word as German Schmuck "jewelry, adornments," which is related to Low German smuck "supple, tidy, trim, elegant," and to Old Norse smjuga "slip, step through" (see smock).
In Jewish homes, the word was "regarded as so vulgar as to be taboo" [Leo Rosten, "The Joys of Yiddish," 1968] and Lenny Bruce wrote that saying it on stage got him arrested on the West Coast "by a Yiddish undercover agent who had been placed in the club several nights running to determine if my use of Yiddish terms was a cover for profanity." Euphemized as schmoe, which was the source of Al Capp's cartoon strip creature the shmoo.
"[A]dditional associative effects from German schmuck 'jewels, decoration' cannot be excluded (cross-linguistically commonplace slang: cf. Eng. 'family jewels')" [Mark R.V. Southern, "Contagious Couplings: Transmission of Expressives in Yiddish Echo Phrases," 2005]. But the English phrase refers to the testicles and is a play on words, the "family" element being the essential ones. Words for "decoration" seem not to be among the productive sources of European "penis" slang terms.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. He's such a schmuck!
- 他真蠢！
來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》
- 2. What schmuck would fly a plane into the Trade Center?
- 什么樣的蠢貨會(huì)把飛機(jī)開(kāi)到世貿(mào)中心 呢 ?
來(lái)自電影對(duì)白
- 3. I called in from my body shop, and Jericho made me sound like a schmuck.
- 我從我的車(chē)身修理廠打來(lái)的, 耶利哥在我聽(tīng)來(lái)就是個(gè)蠢貨.
來(lái)自電影對(duì)白
- 4. Before long, she realized she had married a real schmuck.
- 沒(méi)多久, 她就發(fā)現(xiàn)她嫁了一個(gè)道道地地的討厭鬼.
來(lái)自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 5. Sandra: Isn't Lisa his girlfriend? What a schmuck!
- 珊卓拉: 他的女朋友不是麗莎 嗎 ?真是個(gè)大爛人.
來(lái)自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)