schnook
noun/ʃnʊk/
/ʃnʊk/
(North American English, informal, disapproving)- a person who is stupid or unimportantWord Origin1940s: perhaps from German Schnucke ‘small sheep’ or from Yiddish shnuk ‘snout’.
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