schnook

schnook

1. slang A foolish, gullible person; a pushover. From Yiddish. I can't believe you convinced that schnook to transfer his entire life savings into your account! I felt like such a schnook after falling for their prank.
2. slang An utterly worthless or insignificant person; a loser. From Yiddish. Mary's new boyfriend is a total schnook. He couldn't even finish his associate's degree! She's always been a bit of a schnook, just coasting by in life with no real ambition.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

schnook

and schnuck and shnook (ʃnʊk)
n. a naive person; a dope. (Yiddish.) What’s a good-looking dame like her doing with a shnook like him?

schnuck

verb
See schnook
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • schnuck
  • shnook
  • sap
  • schmegegge
  • schmegeggy
  • schmendrick
  • mensch
  • simple Simon
  • meshuggeneh
  • nudnik
References in periodicals archive
Rifkin is particularly appealing as a character presumably modeled to some degree on himself, while Markes adroitly limns his fledgling star without reducing him to a mere schnook. The film's best, running gang involves the actor initially chosen for the docu, whose path continues to cross that of the less fortunate Decker.
Ted likes it because any schnook can play, and he wants to keep its purity intact.
Jeanne Shulman Lainie Kazan Morton Shulman Elliott Gould Jiro Nishi Sab Shimono Gump Robin Dunne Chantel Lela Rochon Video Store Kid Danny Smith Lance Joshua Peace Sergio David Usher Combine the high-energy pyrotechnic choreography of a Hong Kong actioner with the plight of a banal sitcom schnook and you have "The Big Hit." A fleet piece of sock-'em entertainment, its kinetic force plows through myriad plot holes and inconsistencies with game abandon.
"All these aspirational schnooks came out here thinking that they had really made it,'' said Fountain, a real estate broker, blogger and lifelong Greenwich resident.
Even Arik's outre job working for a smuggler amounts to nothing more than a summer gig where he sweeps the gambling room and follows poor schnooks who have decided to use Yankele's services.
Working schnooks even have another pathetic hero foisted upon them.
Ehud Olmert, as Prime Minister, spent so much time with rich Americans that he began to feel that if these "schnooks" can have it all, why can't he?
is through Now don't you give me those adjunct blues Cause I did everything Lay off of those adjunct blues Took all the classes Read all the books Listed the sources Cited the schnooks Wrote a dissertation insightful and true Then I wrote it all again when you said to make it new Now don't you...
Tony began as the classic two-bit gunsel who gave us law-abiding schnooks a vicarious thrill with his rise, then a righteous reassurance with his fall.
Jerry Falwell, who speaks to God, and God speaks back to him, has told you that it wasn't religious fanatics serving an all-powerful god who threw themselves into fiery hell, it was the ACLU, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ones who take up the eases of poor schnooks who've been fired for blowing the whistle on corporate polluters and subhuman sweatshop owners.
Other chains that are active are Kroger, WinnDixie, Schnooks, Rite Aid, Pubilx and HEB.
The first is: Has anybody in retailing ever used the phrase "trade dress?" Us schnooks in the business call it merchandising or visual display or point of sale, but trade dress?
free cinema in England, direct cinema in the United States and candid eye in this country) broke away from the kind of documentaries that treat viewers like dim schnooks. A collaboration between the NFB's English and French programs (Adam Symansky and Eric Michel producing), Wintonick's Cinema Verite is the first movie to offer an in-depth look at the genre's origins and trace its continuing impact.