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SCHMEAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does schmear mean?
• SCHMEAR (noun)
The noun SCHMEAR has 1 sense:
1. (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together
Familiarity information: SCHMEAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Yiddish) a batch of things that go together
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
Context example:
he bought the whole schmeer
Hypernyms ("schmear" is a kind of...):
batch; clutch (a collection of things or persons to be handled together)
Domain category:
Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)
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