This week's theme: eponyms. schmendrik (SHMEN-drik) noun, also shmendrik, schmendrick, shmendrick
A foolish, clueless, and naive person. [After the name of the title character in an operetta by Abraham Goldfaden (1840-1908).] -Anu Garg (gargATwordsmith.org) "With his nasal whine and ill-fitting, slush-sprayed suit, [comedian Eugene Levy] played the sort of obnoxious schmendrik that would prove his trademark." Guy Leshinski; The Importance of Being Eugene; Toronto Life (Canada); Nov 2002. Sponsored by: Give an awesome stocking stuffer: Crazy Aaron's Thinking Putty! Friends and family adore its fun colors and adult-sized handfuls: http://puttyworld.com Derivation, a fascinating game about word and phrase origins. A great gift! http://entspire.com or http://amazon.com/o/asin/b00005btb8/entspire-20 For some of your computational needs - a free web computational engine http://www.mathevaluation.com ............................................................................ We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955) Chat about the joy of Yiddish with Michael Wex, author of "Born to Kvetch" Dec 5, 2005, 5 PM Pacific (GMT -8) at http://wordsmith.org/chat Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/schmendrik.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/schmendrik.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/schmendrik.html This message was sent to "[email protected]".
