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单词 schnook
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Definition of schnook in English:

schnook

nounʃnʊkʃnʊk
US informal
  • A fool.

    〈美,非正式〉傻瓜,蠢蛋

    just a poor schnook who gave her husband a lift
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Yes, I know now that a schnook gets duped.
    • He showed me a vial of sludgy black liquid, presumably from some poor schnook's fouled engine, and another vial of clear, amber fluid, presumably the ‘after’ effect.
    • Harding, whose funeral train ran the length of the continent with people lining the tracks, roosts in history's attic, a presidential schnook.
    • I can still remember the schnook in the Hawaiian print shirt at a colleague's all-out wedding
    • No sequel required - who'd pay money to watch the life of a schnook?
    • You have without a doubt been a good schnook for too long, and here's what you should do: Call these nuts and tell them they have two days to return home or the dog is going to an animal shelter.
    • Her ‘lessons’ are an in-your-face affront, and the role you've been playing is that of the good schnook.
    • He would be defeated not by votes but by how well he could tolerate not just world-class, presidential-caliber anxiety but the constantly changing vectors of his own self-image - was he thief, hero, spoiler, contender, schnook?
    • The first hour of the film is the best, with Lemmon inhabiting the role of pathetic schnook that he plays so well.
    • After seeing the collection reinstalled in that spectacular building, only a true philistine - or a schnook - would think it's not worth it.
    • And we're the schnooks who gape and give these people our grudging or not so grudging admiration.
    • He played the schnook with believable restraint, leaving the Marx Brothers, Jerry Lewis and Lou Costello to play the clowns.
    • Start by finding out if a more-fitting job exists within your company, in which case you may have a head start over the other schnooks who want it.
    • He's now just another schnook trying to make it legitimately.
    • Yes, he was visiting the senate committee again today, helping them understand why he's still got 66 million dollars and the schnooks who worked for him are selling pencils from a tin cup on the street.

Origin

1940s: perhaps from German Schnucke 'small sheep' or from Yiddish shnuk 'snout'.

Rhymes

betook, book, brook, Brooke, Chinook, chook, Coke, cook, Cooke, crook, forsook, Gluck, hook, look, mistook, nook, partook, rook, schtuck, Shilluk, shook, Tobruk, took, undercook, undertook

Definition of schnook in US English:

schnook

(also shnook)
nounʃnʊkSHno͝ok
US informal
  • A person easily duped; a fool.

    just a poor schnook who gave her husband a lift
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He played the schnook with believable restraint, leaving the Marx Brothers, Jerry Lewis and Lou Costello to play the clowns.
    • The first hour of the film is the best, with Lemmon inhabiting the role of pathetic schnook that he plays so well.
    • No sequel required - who'd pay money to watch the life of a schnook?
    • Harding, whose funeral train ran the length of the continent with people lining the tracks, roosts in history's attic, a presidential schnook.
    • Yes, he was visiting the senate committee again today, helping them understand why he's still got 66 million dollars and the schnooks who worked for him are selling pencils from a tin cup on the street.
    • You have without a doubt been a good schnook for too long, and here's what you should do: Call these nuts and tell them they have two days to return home or the dog is going to an animal shelter.
    • After seeing the collection reinstalled in that spectacular building, only a true philistine - or a schnook - would think it's not worth it.
    • He would be defeated not by votes but by how well he could tolerate not just world-class, presidential-caliber anxiety but the constantly changing vectors of his own self-image - was he thief, hero, spoiler, contender, schnook?
    • Her ‘lessons’ are an in-your-face affront, and the role you've been playing is that of the good schnook.
    • He's now just another schnook trying to make it legitimately.
    • Start by finding out if a more-fitting job exists within your company, in which case you may have a head start over the other schnooks who want it.
    • I can still remember the schnook in the Hawaiian print shirt at a colleague's all-out wedding
    • And we're the schnooks who gape and give these people our grudging or not so grudging admiration.
    • Yes, I know now that a schnook gets duped.
    • He showed me a vial of sludgy black liquid, presumably from some poor schnook's fouled engine, and another vial of clear, amber fluid, presumably the ‘after’ effect.

Origin

1940s: perhaps from German Schnucke ‘small sheep’ or from Yiddish shnuk ‘snout’.

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