schnook
Example Sentences
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But we chose that archetype that we’ve used before: the schnook from Omaha.
From Los Angeles Times
“Nigel Farage: everything was his for the taking – and now he gets to live the rest of his life like a schnook.”
From The Guardian
In one scene, the Saint almost shoots Jesse, but some poor schnook accidentally gets in the way.
From The Verge
Everyone could use your quote, and you could steal one from some schnook at Rolling Stone if you needed to.
From Salon
To varying degrees, and woefully oversimplified, most of the novels pit a plucky heroine or poor, priapic, paranoid schnook against some vast, bureaucratic, merciless conspiracy.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
