schmear
also schmeer or shmear (shmîr)n. Slang A portion of cream cheese or another spread, as on a bagel.
Idiom: whole schmear The entirety of something; everything.
[Yiddish shmir, smear, smudge, from shmirn, to smear, grease, from Middle High German smiren, from Old High German smirwen.]
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Noun | 1. | schmeer - (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together; "he bought the whole schmeer"Yiddish - a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script batch, clutch - a collection of things or persons to be handled together |
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