schmuck的词源

英文词源

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.

中文词源

schmuck（笨蛋）：来自东意第绪语的脏话

英语单词schmuck是口语中用来骂人的一个单词，常常被委婉地翻译为“笨蛋”，其实它是一个非常粗俗的单词，更直白的翻译是“傻屌”。这个词来自东意第绪语shmok，字面意思就是penis（阴茎），是一句骂人的脏话。意第绪语是中东欧犹太人所操的一门源自高地德语的语言。在犹太人心目中，schmuck一词是如此的粗俗，以至于被视为禁忌。歌手Lenny Bruce就曾经因为在舞台上说过这个单词而被犹太警察逮捕。因为这个词过于粗俗，人们往往用单词schmoe来代替它。在国外与人争执时，可不要轻易使用这个单词哟。

schmuck：[ʃmʌk] n.笨蛋，傻屌

schmoe：[ʃməu] n.笨蛋

该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：schmuck 词源，schmuck 含义。

schmuck：笨蛋，傻瓜

来自 shmuck,来自依地语 shmok,阴茎，来自德语 Schmuck,珠宝，宝贝，来自低地德语 smuck, 优雅的，漂亮的，来自 PIE*smuk,光滑的，词源同 smock.该词在依地语为极端粗俗语，字面 意思即男人的宝贝，等同于汉语骂人的“傻屌”。字母-s-在德语和依地语音变为-sch-.