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SHNOOK

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised

Example:

don't be such an apologetic shnook

Synonyms:

schnook; shnook

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("shnook" is a kind of...):

simple; simpleton (a person lacking intelligence or common sense)

Domain category:

Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)

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