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schmendrick in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Shmendrik (Yiddish: שמענדריק), also
rendered as
schmendrick or
shmendrick is a
Yiddish word meaning...
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Shmendrik, oder di
komishe Chaseneh (Yiddish: שמענדריק, אָדער, די קאָמישע חתונה, English:
Schmendrik or The
Comical Wedding) is an 1877
comedy by Abraham...
- Bucharest-based
theater troupe — and the
playwright wrote the
title role of
Shmendrik for him.
Mogulesko soon
founded his own
troupe and
dominated Yiddish theatre...
- that the main
characters in the film
might be more
appropriately called "
shmendriks". In
bodybuilding culture, the term "schmoe", or "smos", is used to describe...
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basis later that year for Goldfaden's
light comedy Shmendrik, oder Die
Komishe Chaseneh (
Shmendrik or The
Comical Wedding),
starring Mogulescu as the...
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woman (שיקסע, shikse, a
derivative of sheygets, from Polish: siksa; AHD)
Shmendrik or Shmendrick: A
foolish or
contemptible person (from a
character in an...
- soup the
shlemiel spilled on the shlimazel.
shmendrik (Yid. שמענדריק):
ineffectual person. From
Shmendrik, an 1877
opera in
Yiddish by
Abraham Goldfaden...
-
words may
sound comical to an
English speaker.
Terms like
shnook and
shmendrik,
shlemiel and
shlimazel (often
considered inherently funny words[citation...
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Kremenchuk over low pay,
Rosenberg himself pla**** the
juvenile lead role in
Shmendrik,
effectively breaking the strike. The
dispute was resolved, and one of...
- left behind. The rest of us
might think Shmendrik just took a
wrong turn and
ended up back home, but for
Shmendrik, this
discovery sheds light on holy teachings:...
