shmear
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9.9
- noun
- /ʃmɪr/
- Informal
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cobertura
- You're gonna pick up a few French pastries, or maybe some bagels and a shmear, and the Sunday New York Times.
- the whole shmear
Examples
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And even in this work environment, all they see is bagels and shmear and Goldman Sachs.
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For the party, we prepared a platter with smoked salmon, bagels, and a delicious shmear of herbed cream cheese.
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"That diamond is gonna come on the back of a baseball card "and the Ritz will taste great with a shmear."
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My wife and my doctor tell me not to eat this food, but the bagels with the shmear, the brisket, the kasha, it's so delicious, I have to eat it.
Fiction book (1997) -
At 3.46 billion, we find cyanobacteria colonizing at a great rate in stromatolites—the whole shmear.
Fiction book (1999) -
On a Saturday morning, we enjoyed bagels with a generous shmear of cream cheese.
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She brought a variety of toppings for the bagels, including lox, capers, and a savory shmear.
Synonyms
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2.1
A group of things used or kept together
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1.9
The act of gathering things for a particular purpose
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3.5
A collection of different things, like books or food
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8.5
All the things or people together as a group
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5.5
A group of things put together, like parts or materials
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7.4
A group of different things gathered in one place
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9.9
A complete set of related things included together
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9.9
A mixed collection of different things
A set of things that go together and are bought or used as one
A pile of things gathered together
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Etymology
Shmear comes from Yiddish and originally meant a 'spread' you put on bread, like cream cheese, and it is like the English word smear meaning 'to spread'. So, when people say the 'whole shmear' they mean the whole set or everything, like ordering the full spread at brunch.