schmendrick

Meaning

Noun

A stupid person; a fool; a nincompoop.

Origin

From Yiddish שמענדריק, from the name of a character in the operetta Shmendrik, oder Die komishe Chaseneh (Schmendrik, or The Comical Wedding) by Avrom Goldfaden.

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