schmuck笨蛋

【使用地区】：美国

【释义】：

Judging by its common use by New Yorkers，one wouldn’t think schmuck was an obscene word．Schmuck is Yiddish for penis，deriving somehow from a German word meaning“ornament”and has come to mean a stupid，obnoxious person，of whom there are apparently so many that schmuck is one of the best—known Yiddish expressions．

从纽约人普遍使用此词的情况来看，一般不会认为schmuck(笨人、笨蛋)是个猥亵的词。Schmuck在意第绪语中意为“阴茎”，不知何故源于德语一个意为“装饰”的词，后来指“愚蠢、可憎的人”。有关“笨蛋，蠢人”的词汇和表达方式很多，而schmuck却显而易见是人们最熟知的意第绪语表达方式之一。