Definitions

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  • noun clothing
  • noun rubbish (worthless material)

Etymologies

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Yiddish שמאַטע (shmate, "rag")

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Examples

  • Last Christmas, a box of Audrey Hepburn's old schmutter was unloaded for £270,000.

    Buy Bono's old sock? No thanks 2010

  • Watching Sugar in his robes yesterday you could almost here him thinking "What a lovely bit of schmutter, I could make these in polyester and lose the ermine, price them right and they would fly off the stalls in Petticoat lane".

    The Apprentice : Westminster Special juliette 2009

  • Oh Amy, Amy, Amy: If only Ms Winehouse would stick to what she knows best - making music - rather than trying her hand designing schmutter for Fred Perry.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • Oh Amy, Amy, Amy: If only Ms Winehouse would stick to what she knows best - making music - rather than trying her hand designing schmutter for Fred Perry.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • Lord Grade could estimate the cost of your clothes at a glance (adding 50\% for overheads and a 50\% markup), having been in the schmutter business before deciding that there was a brighter future dancing the Charleston.

    The Guardian World News 2009

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  • Rubbish.

    April 6, 2009