shmarmy

shmarmy
adj
British
smarmy, offensively ingratiating or smug. This new pronunciation of the common colloquialism represents a late 1980s phenomenon in fashionable and youth circles whereby certain words are altered to resemble the many words of Yiddish origin beginning with sh-.
► 'That shmarmy man in the coffee advert.' (Interview, Making the Break, British TV documentary about advertising, 1989)

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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  • Shmarm — Mushy romantic stuff. When someone gets shmarmy they say things like Shnooky wooky cakes and read mushy poetry. You get the idea? He was so shmarmy I felt like puking!. It was giving me cavities. All day he was shmarming over her, it was sooo… …   Dictionary of american slang

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