Schmeer, schmear, or shmear is a noun meaning the entire set, bribe, flattery, or spread; as a verb, it means to flatter or bribe.
Schmeer, schmear o shmear es un sustantivo que significa todo un conjunto, soborno, adulación o untar; como verbo, es adular o sobornar.
| Front | schmeer or schmear or shmear \shmeer\ |
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| Back | noun 1. The entire set (as in the whole schmeer). 2. Bribe or flattery. 3. Spread or paste. verb tr To butter up: to flatter or bribe. [From Yiddish schmirn (to smear, grease, or flatter), from Middle High German smiren. Earliest recorded use: 1958. Literally speaking, to schmeer is to smear, cream cheese on a bagel, for example. The term is also used in many metaphorical senses: to flatter or bribe someone. Many languages have similar terms. In English we have: "to grease someone's palm" (to bribe) and "to butter someone up" (to flatter). There's another metaphorical sense in English that makes use of schmeer's cousin, smear, as in "to smear someone's reputation".] "All three of the women sharing the bill have extensive TV experience -- HBO and Comedy Central specials, Letterman, Leno, the whole shmear." |
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