Actually, schmuck is ALSO yiddish, and is from the German for "Jewel" (in
german, and jeweler is a "Scmuckler" It does refer to male genitalia in
yiddish, but not in herbrew. (Family Jewels....Get it?)

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On Thu, 8 May 1997, JD Farber wrote:

Sorry I don't know any actual hebrew.  And anyway wouldn't that actually
be yiddish.  And the only Yiddish I know are the four questions and that
was from a while ago.  Hey isn't Schmuck yiddish. I believe it at least
has a close yiddish root.

Dave Muniak

The Four Questions (And I assume you mean the ones at Passover), are in Hebrew.

Shmuck is Hebrew.  Putz is Yiddish.  Both mean penis.

Now, bubellah, stop kvetching and start writing! :)

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