schmoe
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9.1
- noun
- /ʃmoʊ/
- Offensive
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- Don't be such a schmoe; it's easy to see that they're just trying to fool you.
- poor schmoe
- schmoes on the street
Now how can like everyday Joe Schmo use it to land a job?
- Now how can like everyday Joe Schmo use it to land a job?
- But Joe Schmo on the street and Stephen Hawking were not equally entitled to prestige in their views of particle physics.
- There's just a lot of schmoes, and it's like the most random, arbitrary way to split people up into us and them, and it causes people to make value judgements.
- Again, if we want to use this factory worker example, you're no longer just Joe Schmo, who came in last week and is kind of clumsy on the blaster.
- Whether you're a super famous artist or Joe Schmo like me, telling your story consistently and authentically in the places where people take pay attention.
- Telling girls that you like Joe Schmo is the guy for you.
- But he just got shot by Poison dart by some Joe Schmo.
- Why can't Joe Schmoe go drive and pick up laundry and do it himself at his house?
- And you know, the whole line that I pointed out a second ago can't be just just be Joe Schmo that does it.
- If Joe Schmo sexually assaulted somebody in college and now the whoever that is wants to get relief in the courts under this act, is she going to bother?
Examples
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It's just your average bunch of Wall Street schmoes.
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No matter what it is, there are subjects in which you know way more than the average schmoe.
Blog text (10) -
I'm just a poor schmoe who got a little lucky, and sue me if I want to give a little back.
Fiction book (1992) -
I'm the kind of schmoe who's generally interested in the other guy's point of view.
Fiction book (1991) -
You're Joe Schmoe, you find an artifact that gives you super powers, what do you do?
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Whether you're a super famous artist or Joe Schmo like me, telling your story consistently and authentically in the places where people take pay attention.
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But that doesn't mean that they're not replaceable with any old Joe Schmoe in Romney's mind.
Blog text (8) -
I can't believe that schmoe fell for that simple trick.
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The schmoe forgot his wallet at home and couldn't pay for his lunch.
Synonyms
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7.0
A person who is easily tricked
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7.9
A person others make fun of or who does what they are told
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9.9
A person who is foolish and annoying
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9.9
A person who is easily tricked and pitied by others
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9.9
A foolish person who is easy to trick or control
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9.9
A person who is foolish and easily tricked
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9.9
A person who easily believes others and whom people pity
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9.9
A clumsy person who acts foolishly
A foolish person who is easily tricked
A person who trusts others and falls for tricks easily
Antonyms
Compounds
How Gullible
Surface Forms
Etymology
Schmoe most likely comes from Yiddish and from the joke name Joe Schmoe, a rhyming way people used to mean an 'average' man, so a helpful way to remember it is to think of 'Average Joe' with a silly ending. That's why a schmoe means a 'foolish' or 'easily tricked' person.