schmear (redirected from schmeering)

schmeer also schmear or shmear  (shmîr)

n. Slang

A number of things that go together; an aggregate: bought the whole schmeer.

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[Yiddish shmir, smear, smudge, from shmirn, to smear, grease, from Middle High German smiren, from Old High German smirwen.]

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schmear, schmeer [ʃmɪə]

n

US informal a situation, matter, or affair (esp in the phrase the whole schmear)

[from Yiddish shmirn to smear or grease]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

schmear - (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together; "he bought the whole schmeer" schmeer, shmear 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

Translations

schmear

n (US inf)

(= bribe) → Bestechung f

the whole schmear → das ganze Drumherum or Brimborium (inf)