Best one-syllable Sch- / Sh- words from German / Yiddish. Also shouldn't English just absorb all of them?

I was pressure cooking a rotisserie chicken and thought about schmaltz and why it has that connotation when it's so flavorful in broth, then started thinking there's really an absurd number of sh- sounding words that have made it to English: schmuck, schlep, spiel etc... so why not complete the collection?

Schtick is pretty good. And schlock.

Two syllables, but I've always quite enjoyed schlemiel.

schlong of course

Schmutter (2 schyllables)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shvantz

schvitz is a personal fav

this will probably be a schvort thread

schmutz

bear in mind words beginning with an "sp" in German are pronounced "schp...", so "spiel" fits here

oh sorry you already had "spiel" in your examples in the top thread post ! how embarrassing! i should learn to read!

Shtup

schlag

schlimm

Schnozzle

Schnorrer

Schmeckt.

sadly, "schlampe" still in common use by macho fuckwits, incels etc

schtupp

schnickschnack

schreck

SCHMUTZ

I wonder if "that smarts!" came from schmerz. I feel like it would still be a good to import a second time for making compound words.

schwag

goddamn you guys already said schmutz i am useless at this. what a schlemihl !

what a schmendrick !

what a schlimazel!

what a schmegegge !

key and peele did a sketch saying “schmutz” several times, I thought only my family said that

also i can't count

https://www.vermontmoviestore.com/cdn/shop/products/111DVD_LAST_POLKA_360x.jpg

Schwa.

Schlub

Maybe schnuck can be verb-ized into "being abducted/cajoled into singing"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r55_wi5uicg

schnook. or what henry hill lived the rest of his life as

Schtoked (California-yiddish)

Schmo

that's actually one I use kinda often, along with schlub & schlep

Schwing! or was that just invented by Mike Myers?

Shpuck, meaning “to nose around”. Anyone else use this?

never heard of shpuck, but was disappointed to find out "snook" comes from Dutch

Strange my family used it all the time but I can’t find it online

He’s a bit of a spucher

Schwing! or was that just invented by Mike Myers?

mike myers apparently based the Wayne lingo on the teenage lingo in Toronto of his youth

Was gonna say schmatta, but evidently it's basically the same word as schmutter

what a schande!

very scheisty

Sticking to one-syllable words, these German lexical items need to enter the English language:

'Schmarrn' = Austrian word for the meaningless rubbish that someone else says, e.g.: "Dauernd hat er seinen Mund auf und raus kommt nur Schmarrn." ("His mouth is always open but he only spouts cr*p.")
'Schmier' = Swiss German dialect word for the police
'Schnuck' = regional (Central German) word for sweets
'Schnick Schnack Schnuck', or in North Germany 'Sching Schang Schong' = German names for the game 'Rock, paper, scissors'

Polysyllabic German words:

'Schabernack' = a prank that you play on other people
'Schnudergoof' = an annoying child in Swiss German
'Schoggi' = Swiss German word for chocolate. It just sounds good.
'Schoofseckel' = Swiss German word for a complete idiot.

And speaking of 'sch/sh' words that have already made it across into English, 'Shamus'(US slang for a detective) most likely originates from the Yiddish word 'shammes', which had the original meaning of a caretaker.

or in North Germany 'Sching Schang Schong' = German names for the game 'Rock, paper, scissors'

I looked into this a bit as my Northern German parents only ever used the literal "schere, stein, papier" and the name you cited seems dangerously close to a German's person imitation of Chinese. No full confirmation of this but some speculation that, as the game originated in Japan, it could have been the result of a mistranslation. I'd stick to shnick shnack schnuck to be safe.

Shtum - which seems to be only in use in the UK.

I looked into this a bit as my Northern German parents only ever used the literal "schere, stein, papier" and the name you cited seems dangerously close to a German's person imitation of Chinese. No full confirmation of this but some speculation that, as the game originated in Japan, it could have been the result of a mistranslation. I'd stick to shnick shnack schnuck to be safe.

The ever-wonderful Atlas zur deutschen Alltagssprache website has a bit more on the possible origins of this.

one that should be adopted is Spießer (noun: person who does it/ is that) or spießig (adjective: sharing / having that quality) which describes a curtain-twitching jobsworth aspirational middle-class mean-spirited twee conservative OCD snitch

Another British only one, even though it's not certain it's from Yiddish:

Shtuck

"shtum" is the German adjective "stumm" which you might recognize from Mute records catalogue numbers - it means silent or mute or "shut up" and is pronounced roughly"shtoom"
"shtuck" i've never heard in British English, but the German "Stück" means "piece" and is pronounced roughly as "shtook"

two German terms of endearment are Schatz & Spatz (pronounced shpatz)
eg
mein kleiner Schatz - my little treasure
mein kleiner Spatz - my little sparrow

"shtuck" i've never heard in British English, but the German "Stück" means "piece" and is pronounced roughly as "shtook

You haven't watched enough episodes of The Sweeney or Minder. "In shtuck" = "in trouble".

commonly used
"schade" (adj) what a pity / what a shame / sorry to hear that / too bad / what a bummer
less commonly used
"Schande!" (noun) what an absolutely unconscionable disgrace!

i wonder if "in shtuck" for "in trouble" comes from a Germanised/Yiddish take on "bit" - "he's in a bit of trouble", the German "Stück" can mean EN "bit"?

"shpuck" meaning "to nose around" is kinda baffling cos "Spuck" auf Deutsch (pron "shpook") means spit or puke, the verb "spucken" means to puke or spit
???

unless it's a double rhyming slang with "butcher's hook", eg "let's take a butcher's at that"???

The ever-wonderful Atlas zur deutschen Alltagssprache website has a bit more on the possible origins of this.

Really confused as to how one could get to Shing Shang Shong from Sansukumi-ken and still kinda feel like this is surely the work of some white person somewhere going "well you know those asian names!", but who knows.

"shpuck" meaning "to nose around" is kinda baffling cos "Spuck" auf Deutsch (pron "shpook") means spit or puke, the verb "spucken" means to puke or spit

A Spuk can also be a ghost, or a haunting, so maybe in the same lineage as British spooks being investigators?

Tho it should be noted not all yiddish words are close to German; I did a taster course in yiddish at soas once, and most of the time I was just adding sh's to my German and doing fine but every now and then you get something like "mischpoke" for family or "bulbes" for potatoes that no German would ever be able to figure out. Slavic language influences as well as hebrew.

Spook = ghost in English too

Schmear

schmooze and schmoozer

is schmarm same as schmäe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSjXksNgYbE

In German at least schmarm is nonsense (as well as a dish), schmae from what I'm reading is more like a specific kind of Viennese wit, so they're kinda opposites.

I was told Schlitz was slang for genitals and thus a curious choice for a beer brand but I replied the reputation was that it was piss water and that seemed to explain it.

When you're out of schlitz...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a7wGkHkT4E

schlep! i use it a lot when kvetching about going out.

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