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schmeer also schmear or shmear (shmîr)

n. Slang

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

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

schmear, schmeer [ʃmɪə]

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

[from Yiddish shmirn to smear or grease]

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Noun

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)

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batch clutch schmeer shmear Yiddish			I took a tentative shmeer and decided that my chopped liver experiences, heretofore, had been inferior and I had unfairly dismissed that entire liver food group. Go Stuff Yourself! How to Eat at the Second Avenue Deli by Doree Shafrir / The New York Observer Finally, to understand what New Yorkers are talking about (tawkinabow), any newcomer unfamiliar with Basic Yinglish will need to take a crash course to grasp such classic locutions as shlep (to lug, carry), kvetch (complain, whine), shmuck (a dope, jerk, in Yiddish a penis), shmeer (to spread or a spread), and oy (an untranslatable exclamation that Leo Rosten describes as not a word but a vocabulary). How to Tawk like a New Yawker by Elster, Charles Harrington / Verbatim			shiver Shiver-spar shivering Shiveringly shivery Shiviti Shivoo Shizoku Shizuoka Shkodër shkotzim shlemiel shlep shlepper shlimazel shlock shlockmeister shlong shloshim shlub Shluh SHM shmaltz shmatte shmear shmeer shmegegge shmo shmoose shmooze shmuck shnook shnorr shnorrer Shoad Shoading Shoah shoal Shoaliness Shoaling Shoaly Shoar shoat shochet shock shock absorber shock front shock jock shock radio shock reaction shock tactics			Shmakov, Pavel Shmakov, Pavel Vasilevich Shmakovka Shmalgauzen, Ivan Shmalgauzen, Ivan Fedorovich Shmalgauzen, Ivan Ivanovich Shmalts shmaltz Shmarinov, Dementii Shmarinov, Dementii Alekseevich shmatte shmattes SHMB SHMBL SHMBO SHMC SHMCC SHMD SHME shmear shmeared shmearing shmears Shmedia shmeer shmeered shmeering shmeers shmegegge Shmelev, Ivan Shmelev, Ivan Sergeevich Shmelkov, Petr Shmelkov, Petr Mikhailovich SHMEO SHMES SHMF SHMG SHMGCC SHMHA SHMHC Shmi Shmidt Hypothesis Shmidt Island Shmidt Peninsula Shmidt Subglacial Basin Shmidt, Aleksandr Shmidt, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Shmidt, Aleksandr Eduardovich Shmidt, Cape

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