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shm-; schm-
prefix
used for creating a Yiddish-sounding reduplication of an English word, usually with the intention of diminishing the importance of the original word US, 1929- Confusion Schmooshum — Journal of English and German Philology, pp. 226–227, 1952
- Disguise, schmisguise. So you wear also a gold earring? That’s a disguise too? — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 218, 1954
- Clues, schmooz. Sure, they’re a clue and what the hell you goin’ to do with it? — Jim Thompson, The Nothing Man, p. 242, 1954
- Ain’t we the fancy schmancies? Pink prison bars yet. — John M. Murtagh and Sara Harris, Cast the First Stone, p. 241, 1957
- “Fancy-shmancy” was all she said to me on the phone. — Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus, p. 14, 1959
- — American Speech, pp. 302–303, December 1961: “On Yiddish shm-”
- Raise, schmaze! Boots beamed at the bearer of good news. — Clarence Cooper Jr, Black, p. 249, 1963
- She snarled, “Lonely, schmlonely,” folded her arms, slouched deep in her seat, and went to sleep. — John Nichols, The Sterile Cuckoo, p. 33, 1965
- Liberal schmiberal. — Lenny Bruce, The Essential Lenny Bruce, p. 13, 1967
- He was hanging around a fancy-schmantzy girl named Rebecca Draper[.] — When Harry Met Sally, 1989
- Alternate, schmalternate . . . I want you on this appeal, Sidney. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 294, 1990
- Reason, shmeason. You should go give him shit. — Mallrats, 1995
- Nowadays, western Europe is overrun by custard tarts that are not frilly at all, fancy-schmantzy Portuguese ones with flakey pastry[.] — Stuart Jeffries, Mrs Slocombe’s Pussy, p. 4, 2000
- Cover, shmover–you all hated his songs, too. — Kevin Smith, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, p. 47, 2001
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