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schnorrer Jewish.|ˈʃnɒrə(r)|
Also shnorrer.
[Yiddish var. of G. schnurrer, f. schnurren (slang) to go begging.]
A Jewish beggar. Now in extended U.S. use, a beggar, layabout, scrounger, good-for-nothing.
1892Zangwill Childr. Ghetto i. 4 The Schnorrer felt no false shame in his begging. 1899Daily Chron. 10 Mar. 3/4 The crowd of half-starved immigrants, consisting of street hawkers and schnorrers, who are the plague of the Jewish Board of Guardians. 1934E. Pound Eleven New Cantos xxxv. 24 The tale of the perfect schnorrer. 1959[see layabout]. 1962J. D. Salinger Franny & Zooey 136, I had lunch with him one day a couple of weeks ago. A real schnorrer, but sort of likable. 1977New Yorker 24 Oct. 38/3 Investigate your own pants, you schnorrer. 1981J. Barnett Firing Squad xiv. 190 A right pair of miserable schnorrers I've got here.
So s(c)hnorr v. trans. and intr., to obtain by begging; to beg, sponge (off).
1892I. Zangwill Childr. Ghetto III. ii. vii. 125 Your father..stood in the Lane with lemons, and schnorred half-crowns of my father. Ibid. xii. 221 But isn't it schnorring to be dependent on strangers? 1894― King of Schnorrers iii. 67 Even if you can prove you can schnorr enough to keep a wife, I do not bind myself to consent. 1964W. Markfield To Early Grave iv. 76 Box after box. Shnorred, with cunning and craft, from tough-minded Cousin Schmeilick. 1968Encounter Sept. 30/1, I can go out and within an hour shnorr the entire amount I owe you. 1975Publishers Weekly 19 May 90/1, I hope to shnorr off a couple of Scottish landowners I've met here. |