- "a shame" or "a pity")
schlumph drink schmutter apparel from
Yiddish shmatte שמאטע
meaning rag
schooner bottle scotch leg (scotch egg=leg)
screech mouth...
- "yokel", "boor" ←
Polish żłób ("trough, blockhead") AHD, MW Schmatte,
shmatte A rag
Yiddish shmate ←
Polish szmata AHD ****,
shmuck A
clumsy or stupid...
-
Retrieved July 1, 2021. Green,
Jesse (June 5, 2005). "The Muse Who Sold
Shmattes". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
Retrieved April 13, 2018. Ron Rifkin...
- they seem to have
confused Shamecka (a
female first name in Arabic) with
shmatte (from Yiddish: שמאַטע, from Polish: szmata)
meaning "rag". The reviewer...
- programme". My
grandmother politely inquired why we
wanted to go to "that
shmatte place". As I left for the airport, I got a
sweet good-bye text from my...
- (2003), and
Livyers World (2007) and the non-fiction
books Salt Fish and
Shmattes: The
History of the Jews in
Newfoundland and
Labrador from 1770 (2006)...
- 1955-02-12. p. 3.
Retrieved 18 July 2020. McGrath,
Robin (2006). Salt fish and
shmattes : the
history of the Jews in
Newfoundland and
Labrador from 1770. St. John's:...
- name Binah, and the
character calling her
father "papa" and
wearing a "
shmatte" on her head. Kate
Kellaway of The
Observer described the
story as "written...
