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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--schmendrik This week's theme: eponyms. schmendrik (SHMEN-drik) noun, also shmendrik, schmendrick, shmendrick A foolish, clueless, and naive person. [After the name of the title character in an operetta by Abraham Goldfaden (1840-1908).] "With his nasal whine and ill-fitting, slush-sprayed suit, comedian Eugene Levy played the sort of obnoxious schmendrik that would prove his trademark." Guy Leshinski; The Importance of Being Eugene; Toronto Life (Canada); Nov 2002. X-Bonus We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

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