================================================ Subject: Re: Origins ... From: "Keith P. Mears" To: Date: Sat 25 Aug 2001 00:32:48 -0500 ================================================ Wow! You DO know how to do a "Search". Too bad the only thing you ever seem to come up with is either a dictionary entry or badly outdated. ----- Original Message ----- From: "creed -7m3 - live" To: "Keith P. Mears" Cc: Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 12:20 AM Subject: Origins ... > I heard the phrase from people that were Jewish. But, I looked up the > definition Yiddish and came up with the below definition. > > Yiddish Yid"dish, n. G. j"udisch, prop., Jewish, fr. Jude > Jew. See Jew, Jewish. > A language used by German and other Jews, being a Middle > German dialect developed under Hebrew and Slavic influence. > It is written in Hebrew characters. > > For schmuck, I got the below: > schmuck > n : someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric syn: creep, weirdo, > weirdie, weirdy, spook > > No definition regarding the origin.I tried German translation to > English. It returned decoration. I tried Russian to English and got > schyumuchk. I guess the translator could qualify the word as being > Yiddish. > > Done... > > Jim > > To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp