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noun
Slang
.
dirt; filth; garbage.
Origin:
1965–70;
<
Yiddish
shmuts
or
German
Schmutz,
Middle High German
smuz;
compare
smudge
,
smut
,
Middle English
bismotered
bespattered, soiled (all presumably expressive variants of same
Germanic
base)
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