Re: schmucked

From: werevole (none_at_none.com)
Date: 03/22/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:07:11 GMT

Living in southern BC all my life (Kelowna to Victora and Vancouver) I
can say I have only heard "schmuck" in terms of 'hit' or 'flattened'
in very rare instances. Hardly ever and it usually raised eyebrows.

In my experience, the term 'schmuck' has always been used as a comical
substitute for 'jerk' or in a self-deprecating way ('I am such a
schmuck' = 'I am such an idiot').

On 21 Mar 2005 13:36:35 -0800, "retrosorter" <hrichler@sympatico.ca>
wrote:

>The Canadian Oxford Dictionary has this entry:
>
>schmuck: transitive verb Cdn slang , hit, flatten ( got schmucked on
>the road).
>
>
>
>Does nayone know in what part of Canada this usage has currency and if
>it is used at all in the USA?