schmear

[俚]事情, 事件, 事物

发音

其它 /ʃmɪə(ɹ)/

词形变化

schmears 复数 schmears schmeared schmearing schmears 三单 schmearing 现在分词 schmeared 过去式 schmeared 过去分词

别名

shmir shmear schmeer shmeer

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A spread that goes on a bagel.

  2. 2.

    A batch of things that go together.

  3. 3.

    An aggregate.

v.
  1. 1.

    To spread something, often a bagel spread.

  2. 2.

    To bribe.

    俚语 及物

词汇关系

名词

词源

Borrowed from Yiddish שמיר (shmir, “smear, spread”); compare German schmieren. Doublet of smear, smearcase. By surface analysis, schm- + smear. The sense “bribe” is from Yiddish שמירן (shmirn, “to smear, to bribe”), senses found also in German schmieren. The implication is that a bribe helps “lubricate” an interaction.

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