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Shmohawk or schmohawk is a slang term that might have derived from schmo, a slang term meaning fool. [1] The HBO television show Curb Your Enthusiasm gave the word recent notoriety.[ citation needed] Earlier uses of the word can be found in the Crusader Rabbit animated cartoon "Crusader and the Schmohawk Indians", released in 1950 [2] and in Saul Bellow's 1958 novel Henderson the Rain King.
Shmohawk or schmohawk is the word " Mohawk" with the reduplicative prefix shm- that conveys a mocking or dismissive meaning. It is borrowed from the Yiddish language, in which the prefix has been used to similar effect. [3]
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Shmohawk or schmohawk is a slang term that might have derived from schmo, a slang term meaning fool. [1] The HBO television show Curb Your Enthusiasm gave the word recent notoriety.[ citation needed] Earlier uses of the word can be found in the Crusader Rabbit animated cartoon "Crusader and the Schmohawk Indians", released in 1950 [2] and in Saul Bellow's 1958 novel Henderson the Rain King.
Shmohawk or schmohawk is the word " Mohawk" with the reduplicative prefix shm- that conveys a mocking or dismissive meaning. It is borrowed from the Yiddish language, in which the prefix has been used to similar effect. [3]