[lbo-talk] "tool" as insult?

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Thu Sep 13 08:08:20 PDT 2012


On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 22:26:37 -0500 andie_nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:


> Cock-head doesn't work in American English. But there are lots of dick insults. Schmuck, a thoroughly Americanized Yiddishism, is one in Yiddish. It means jewel in Yiddish, as in family jewels, actually balls, but dick generally.

Ah yes. And of course there's 'putz'. also Yiddish, same development as I understand it.

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