"Mucky-shmuck"

[Mike Cleven]

Dave Robertson wrote:
>
> Of interest to some who follow the trajectory of words not only into and through, but out of pidgins and creoles, will be this case.  A fellow employee of mine here, who has't spent his whole life in the Northwest, nevertheless is fluent enough in our lingo to derisively refer to a certain wealthy businessperson as a "big mucky-shmuck".

A Yiddish-CJ hybrid word?  Interesting....

Begs possibilities.....cultus schlamozzle, kloshe mensch, kull schlep
etc.



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Mike Cleven
http://www.cayoosh.net (Bridge River Lillooet history)
http://www.hiyu.net (Chinook Jargon phrasebook/history)