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How to pronounce schnook in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms shnook
Type of simple, simpleton

Examples of schnook

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Some Christian schnook visited a museum, read a sign, and complained to the museum.
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Some poor schnook has broken down by the side of the road with a flat tire.
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It doesn't even try, aiming for sadistic laughter over the plight of a feckless schnook.
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Starring Jerry Orbach, the frenetic schnook from Scuba Duba.
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The result is that you are looking like the good schnook.
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Glass is content to offer himself up as an infantile schnook.
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He'll be just another schnook in a world full of schnooks.
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The important difference is that Kline wasn't actually the president, just some lovable schnook who happened to look like him.
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His failure in June to accept an offer from Microsoft that would have paid stockholders $33 a share was the coup de schnook.
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More examples
  • (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised; "don't be such an apologetic shnook"
  • This is a list of English words of Yiddish origin, many of which have entered the English language by way of American English. Spelling of some of these Yiddish language words may be variable (for example, schlep is also seen as shlep, schnoz as shnozz, and so on). ...
  • A person who is easily taken advantage of