shmeg

shmeg
n
British
an idiot. A schoolchildren's term, fash-ionable from the 1980s, which is a vari-ant form of smeg or smeggy (from smegma), a word popular among young males in the punk era. The altered pro-nunciation is influenced by Yiddish words such as schmock, schmuck, sch-mendrick, etc.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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