Definitions
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- noun (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised
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Examples
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Just as, if you think about it, those shaving cream pies "awarded" to the unsuspecting face of game MVPs might one of these days result in some poor shnook winging up on the disabled list after getting poked in the eye.
Billy Altman: Jim Joyce Gets Call Wrong, Life Right: I'll Take it 2010
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Even though that lifestyle entails risking one's life and enduring lots of drama and conflict, Henry accepts his cost -- like many American's do -- so that he doesn't have to live the rest of his life "like a shnook" as he says at the end of the movie.
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For those of you are sic who are non-Canadian, Don Cherry is the very redneck, rightwing loudmouth shnook who hosts Hockey Night in Canada.
Gay Marriage, the NHL, Breakfast with Scot, Prop 8 gay person of color 2008
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For those of you are sic who are non-Canadian, Don Cherry is the very redneck, rightwing loudmouth shnook who hosts Hockey Night in Canada.
Archive 2008-11-01 gay person of color 2008
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And most any shnook knows at least a little. it's Yiddish and, according to an article, "Lawsuit, Shmawsuit," in the December issue of the august Yale Law Journal, lawyers 'bookshelves ought to make way for Leo Rosten.
Shnook & Shnook 2008
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The Yiddishism shnook is not derived from German Schnucke, “a small or weak sheep.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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Synonymous with jerk or the more recent nerd, shnook is an Americanized Yiddishism probably derived from the German Schnucke, “a small or weak sheep.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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The Yiddishism shnook is not derived from German Schnucke, “a small or weak sheep.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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Synonymous with jerk or the more recent nerd, shnook is an Americanized Yiddishism probably derived from the German Schnucke, “a small or weak sheep.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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And, of course, there's the lovable dough-faced shnook in the front office, Robert "Fall Guy"
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