schmear

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
15
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ʃmɪə(ɹ)/

Definition of schmear

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A spread that goes on a bagel.
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noun

  1. A spread that goes on a bagel.
  2. A batch of things that go together.
    “So you can buy a la carte programming, or you can buy the whole schmear.”
  3. An aggregate.

verb

  1. To spread something, often a bagel spread.
  2. (slang, transitive)To bribe.
    “"What happened?" "Nothing." "How could nothing happen if you're not with her? Listen, did you grease that d.j.?" "No." "You didn't schmear him? You think the world owes you a living?"”
    “[…] I slipped the guy a hundred dollars." "You had to schmear him to sell you a patch?"”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish שמיר (shmir, “smear, spread”); compare German schmieren. Doublet of smear, smearcase. By surface analysis, schm- + smear. The sense “bribe” is from Yiddish שמירן (shmirn, “to smear, to bribe”), senses found also in German schmieren. The implication is that a bribe helps “lubricate” an interaction.

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