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{{For|the card game term|Schmear (cards)}}{{short description|Word spread in German and Yiddish communities}}__NOTOC__Schmear is a word of Germanic origin, equivalent to “smear” or “spread” (usually fat or butter).In some Germanic languages, the cognate of smear itself means butter (c.f. smör/smør in the North Germanic languages).The use and spelling of schmear or shmear in American English is a direct loanword from Yiddish, where its original usage referred to cheese.WEB, Now Shmear This,forward.com/articles/1651/now-shmear-this/, The Forward, Philologos, 10 February 2006, 1 August 2020, In modern usage it has extended to anything that can be spread, such as cream cheese spread upon a bagel.NEWS, Waldman, Amy, 27 July 1997, Sushi With a Schmear?, The New York Times,www.nytimes.com/1997/07/27/nyregion/sushi-with-a-schmear.html, 1 August 2020, 0362-4331, subscription, - WEB, 19 October 2012, SHMEAR ME! ONE SMALL TOWN, CREAM CHEESE RULES., The Post-Standard, Syracuse, NY,www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-151530407.html,www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-151530407.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20121019130611www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-151530407.html,">web.archive.org/web/20121019130611www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-151530407.html, dead, 19 October 2012, 1 August 2020, - WEB, Skenazy, Lenore, OY VEY ES SCHMEAR! SOMETHING ‘UNHOLEY’ IS BEING DONE TO THE BAGEL,www.nydailynews.com/oy-vey-es-schmear-unholey-bagel-article-1.755002, New York Daily News, 8 June 1997, 1 August 2020, In some cases, it refers to “an entire set or group of related things”, or the expression “the whole shmear”. It can also refer to bribery, as a “little extra” spread on top.In card games such as Schafkopf, Pinochle or Sheepshead, schmearing is to play a high-scoring card to a trick in the hope that one’s partner will win it (see schmear (cards)).{{Citation needed|date=January 2022}}As a slang term, the word {{transl|yi|shmir}} in Yiddish can also refer to a slap on the face, primarily when disciplining young children.{{Citation needed|date=January 2022}}

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