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单词 schmear
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Definition of schmear in English:

schmear

(also shmeer, schmeer, shmear)
nounʃmɪəʃmɪr
North American informal
  • 1An underhand inducement.

    he knew the schmear was on when the producer invited him to lunch
    Synonyms
    inducement, incentive
  • 2A smear or spread.

    a schmear of low-fat cream cheese
    Example sentencesExamples
    • And, in interstellar news, today Earth's moon and the planet Jupiter will rendezvous in the predawn sky, probably for some coffee, maybe a bagel with a little shmear.
    • While making my way to the kitchen for my morning espresso and bagel with schmear, I called my couch a worthless SOB for looking so comfortable knowing I would not be able to recline there all day like I so desired.
    • The speculations have ranged from Joan Baez in particular to his audience in general, with more than a shmear of misogyny in the former case, misanthropy in the latter.
    • And then I carefully sipped champagne as I mingled but my stomach kept growling so I went back to put a schmear of cheese torte on a water cracker.
    • And the schmeer wasn't so much a schmeer as it was a huge dollop of mayo laden with shredded lettuce and sliced red onion.
    • Half the fun of eating these is playing around, mixing up the fillings by adding a little rice on one taco, a schmear of beans on the next.
    • Finally, grab a copy, a bagel, a shmear.
    • Sam chose the cold bagel and shmear and a nice little carton of chocolate milk, as always.
    • In an appeal to the target market's well-developed cynicism, Hank himself is shown saying, ‘May I suggest you have that with a schmear’.
    • With a barrage of self-deprecating Jewish humor, it gets off to a fast and funny start, but unfortunately, like just a few schmeers of cream cheese for a basketful of bagels, it's all spread pretty thin by the end.
verbʃmɪəʃmɪr
[with object]North American informal
  • Flatter or ingratiate oneself with (someone)

    he was buying us drinks and schmearing us up

Phrases

  • the whole schmear

    • informal Everything possible or available; every aspect of the situation.

      I'm going for the whole schmear
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Credit the still-tight bandly playing for keeping the whole shmear from turning into a solipsistic acoustic mess.
      • He anchors the whole shmear with some fat bass.
      • People gave him a soldier's burial, twenty-one guns, the whole shmeer.
      • Oh, can I have a half a dozen of those and hook my friend up here with the whole shmear - you know, clubs, bats, shoes, glove, shirts, pants.
      • I can't help feeling that this also brings the things that appall me - the anger, the punitiveness, the blood and suffering and the whole shmeer.
      • And the whole shmear will be ‘parametrically processed on Substrate Technologies.’

Origin

1960s: from Yiddish shmirn 'flatter, grease'.

 
 

Definition of schmear in US English:

schmear

(also shmeer, schmeer, shmear)
nounSHmirʃmɪr
North American informal
  • 1A corrupt or underhanded inducement; a bribe.

    Synonyms
    inducement, incentive
  • 2A smear or spread.

    the bagel so perfect with a schmear of low-fat cream cheese
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The speculations have ranged from Joan Baez in particular to his audience in general, with more than a shmear of misogyny in the former case, misanthropy in the latter.
    • With a barrage of self-deprecating Jewish humor, it gets off to a fast and funny start, but unfortunately, like just a few schmeers of cream cheese for a basketful of bagels, it's all spread pretty thin by the end.
    • And, in interstellar news, today Earth's moon and the planet Jupiter will rendezvous in the predawn sky, probably for some coffee, maybe a bagel with a little shmear.
    • And then I carefully sipped champagne as I mingled but my stomach kept growling so I went back to put a schmear of cheese torte on a water cracker.
    • In an appeal to the target market's well-developed cynicism, Hank himself is shown saying, ‘May I suggest you have that with a schmear’.
    • While making my way to the kitchen for my morning espresso and bagel with schmear, I called my couch a worthless SOB for looking so comfortable knowing I would not be able to recline there all day like I so desired.
    • Sam chose the cold bagel and shmear and a nice little carton of chocolate milk, as always.
    • Half the fun of eating these is playing around, mixing up the fillings by adding a little rice on one taco, a schmear of beans on the next.
    • Finally, grab a copy, a bagel, a shmear.
    • And the schmeer wasn't so much a schmeer as it was a huge dollop of mayo laden with shredded lettuce and sliced red onion.
verbSHmirʃmɪr
[with object]North American informal
  • Flatter or ingratiate oneself with (someone)

    he was constantly buying us drinks and schmearing us up

Phrases

  • the whole schmear

    • informal Everything possible or available; every aspect of the situation.

      I'm going for the whole schmear
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I can't help feeling that this also brings the things that appall me - the anger, the punitiveness, the blood and suffering and the whole shmeer.
      • Oh, can I have a half a dozen of those and hook my friend up here with the whole shmear - you know, clubs, bats, shoes, glove, shirts, pants.
      • And the whole shmear will be ‘parametrically processed on Substrate Technologies.’
      • People gave him a soldier's burial, twenty-one guns, the whole shmeer.
      • He anchors the whole shmear with some fat bass.
      • Credit the still-tight bandly playing for keeping the whole shmear from turning into a solipsistic acoustic mess.

Origin

1960s: from Yiddish shmirn ‘flatter, grease’.

 
 
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