schmo
Any average Joe; any Joe Schmoe.
Noun US, derogatory
- Any average Joe; any Joe Schmoe.
- I'm just an average schmo
- Of his early childhood, he told the Deseret News of Salt Lake City: “I'm a schmo. My family never made more than $25,000 a year. We're all bakers for generations.” - 2010, Dana Milbank, Tears of a Clown, New York:...
Origin
See Joe Schmoe § Etymology; schmo in this sense may well be homonymic to schmo in the sense above.
Forms
Noun Jewish, US
- A stupid, obnoxious, pathetic, or otherwise contemptible person; a schmuck.
- The poor schmo would immediately break down and confess that he did a lot of other bad things as well. - 2008, Ben Yagoda, chapter IV, in When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It, Crown, →ISBN:
Synonyms: alcatote asshat arsehole asshole bayard berk birdbrain blither bobchin bonehead bozo buffoon brickhead Charlie chucklehead chowderhead chump clart clown der-brain dill pickle dim bulb dimwit dingleberry
Origin
From Yiddish, alteration of schmuck. Compare also Russian чмо (čmo, “jerk, schmuck”).