smous

Meaning

Noun

A peddler.
A Jew from Germany or Eastern Europe.

Origin

Borrowed from Afrikaans smous or Dutch smous, from a Yiddish word whose precise origin is uncertain. One theory is that it derives from Yiddish משה, pronounced moushe in Western Yiddish, from Hebrew מֹשֶׁה.

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