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schmatte U.S. colloq.|ˈʃmætə|
Also shmatte, schmottah, etc.
[a. Yiddish schmatte, ad. Pol. szmata rag.]
A rag, a ragged garment; any garment. Also fig.
1970L. M. Feinsilver Taste of Yiddish ii. 121 A 1969 sale catalog of the Ktav Publishing Company, New York book dealers, listed Philip Roth's licentious novel Portnoy's Complaint with the comment: ‘A shmatte.’ 1972H. Kemelman Monday Rabbi took Off xxii. 144, I mean when they wear those checkered shmattes around their heads, then they're Arabs. Right? 1973J. Marks Mick Jagger 128, I ran away from home in San Bernardino when I was fifteen... All I took was this schmottah I wore Halloween. 1977New Yorker 24 Oct. 39/2 A young woman, pale, in a Victorian schmotta. |
