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schnook

  [shnook]
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–noun Slang.
an unimportant or stupid person; dope.
Origin:
1945–50, Americanism; of uncert. orig.
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schnook also shnook   (shnŏŏk)   
n.   Slang
A stupid or easily victimized person; a dupe.

[Yiddish shnuk, snout, schnook, from Lithuanian snukis, mug, snout.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Slang Dictionary
schnook [ʃnʊk]

and schnuck; shnook
  1. n.
    a naive person; a dope. (Yiddish.) : What's a good-looking dame like her doing with a shnook like him?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

schnook 
1948, probably from Yiddish shnuk "elephant's trunk," or altered from schmuck (q.v.), or perhaps from Ger. schnucke "a small sheep," used in U.S. Yiddish for "a customer easily persuaded, a sucker."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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