Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also schmuckette, schmuckhead) a fool, an unpleasant person.

1934		J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 194: Dis fella’s a schmuck, I tell you!
1937		R. Westerby Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 155: Hope the schmock gets it good and strong.
1939		J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 115: They think you’re a shmuck or something.
1945		G. Marx letter 16 Feb. in Groucho Letters (1967) 44: He doesn’t know I can write, in fact he thinks I’m a complete schmuch.
1957		Laurents & Sondheim West Side Story II i: They say go earn a buck, / Like be a soda jerker, / Which means like be a schmuck.
1959		F. Norman Fings I i: Where’s that schmock Paddy? Ain’t ’e showed up yet?
1962		R. Dougherty Commissioner 353: Look, schmuckhead!
1963		A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 41: Like a schmock I went with him.
1968		Kerouac letter 4 June in Charters II (1999) 452: I may be mashuganish but I’m still not yet a schmuck.
1971		N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 50: I quote: ‘The best man lost. Congratulations schmok. Eddie’.
1986		C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 105: ‘Speak English, you shmuck,’ Wiley snapped.
1986		R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 26: Like he was no better than any other schmuck with no juice to call his own.
1992		K. Lette Llama Parlour 61: You’re the rudest sleaze-schmucko-ratbag I’ve ever met.
1993		K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 122: It was time to spit him out on the pavement and let some other poor schmuckette get stuck with him.
1999		Indep. on Sun. Rev. 27 June 30: Intolerable schmucks in suits from yet another pig-ignorant publishing company.
2004		C. Hiaasen Skinny Dip 273: ‘To Joey, the girl of my dreams’ [...] ‘Try nightmares, schmucko,’ she said.
2007		C. Goffard Snitch Jacket 145: A bona fide killer or just another schmuck running his jaws.
2009		J. Stahl Pain Killers 5: What kind of a schmohawk gets mugged by a seventy-two-year-old with a walker?
2010		K. Richards Life 471: If he [...] goes out with Schmuck and Balls’s band [...] I’ll slit his fuckin’ throat.
2012		A. Prentice ‘The Break’ in Crime Factory: Hard Labour [ebook] You almost knocked the poor little schmuck’s head off.
2012		‘Dutch’ ? (Pronounced Que) [ebook] Those smucks in the bureau want all the glory.
2016		T. Robinson Rough Trade [ebook] Byron, schmuck that he was, couldn’t get to it.
2021		J. Ellroy Widespread Panic 12: I was living on a schmuck cop’s pay.
2023		Rayman & Blau Riker’s 347: When I walked into probation, it was, ‘Eh, schmuck is back.’ When I walked into corrections, people were saluting me.

2. the penis.

1952		in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 38: There was an old gent from Kentuck / Who boasted a filigreed schmuck.
1958		(con. 1950) E. Frankel Band of Brothers 122: Smuck, puhtz, momser, shtup . . . I keep learnin’, Mel, I’ll be talkin’ Jewish right good.
1966		J. Trimble 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases.
1971		B. Malamud Tenants (1972) 45: I don’t go for that circumcise shmuck stuff.
1988		H. Max Gay (S)language.
2012		Metro 22 May 37/2: Shouldn’t we be celebrating the schmuck? Bigging up the bald-headed mouse? Euologising the yoghurt-spitting sausage?