schmutz

[ shmoots ]

noun

, Slang.

1. dirt; filth; garbage.

Word History and Origins

Origin of schmutz¹

First recorded in 1965–70; from Yiddish shmuts or German Schmutz, Middle High German smuz; smudge, smut, Middle English bismotered “bespattered, soiled” (all presumably expressive variants of same Germanic base)

Example Sentences

As if Cinderella showed up at the ball with a little pumpkin schmutz on her glass slipper to wreck the fantasy.

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