English Explanatory Dictionary

shmekl

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

a penis
a fool, a jerk, a contemptible person

Word forms

shmekl

Etymology

Borrowing from Yiddish שמעקל (shmekl), diminutive of שמאָק (shmok), “penis; contemptible person”. Compare schmuck.

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