What does CHMOK mean?.....nt

[Cold Warrior]

nt

[Stan]

... in response to What does CHMOK mean?.....nt, posted by Cold Warrior on May 14, 2003

My wife says it means just how it sounds,, A smooch. A chmok on the cheek.

[Cold Warrior]

... in response to Re: What does CHMOK mean?.....nt, posted by Stan on May 14, 2003

nt

[don1]

... in response to What does CHMOK mean?.....nt, posted by Cold Warrior on May 14, 2003


It means 'photograph' .

[Pordzhik]

... in response to Re: What does CHMOK mean?, posted by don1 on May 14, 2003

Chimok = snap = photo

Chmok = big wet kiss

[ChrisNJ]

... in response to Nearly, posted by Pordzhik on May 14, 2003

n/t

[Pordzhik]

... in response to What's the pronunciation? ch, sh, ?........, posted by ChrisNJ on May 16, 2003


Difficult for us not to put a vowel in there. Hence the confusion.

[robobond]

... in response to Nearly, posted by Pordzhik on May 14, 2003

... derives from the ancient Yiddish word, SCHMUCK, and as early as 1385 it first began appearing in Siberian literature as CHMUCK...
then about 100 years later as CHMUK.  In the 1970's it was used extensively on a dubbed-in Russian TV version of "Laugh-In" by comedian, Arte Johnson, as he wildly ran around yelling "CHMOK CHMOK!"  ...later to be challenged by comedian Tommy Smothers (Tominski Smootherge) during an interview on "Good Morning Russia".  Smootherge basically accused Johnson of stealing his borschline.  Eventually a lawsuit resulted and was settled out of court.  To this day Johnson and Smootherge do not speak to each other.  Thus, loosely translated, CHMOK (also CHIMOK) refers to a schmuck who kisses a woman's photograph.

And now you know the other side of the story.

CHMOK CHMOK!

robo

[don1]

... in response to Re: Nearly Chmoked!, posted by robobond on May 15, 2003


I stand corrected !

Just wait till I get my hands on that Pimsleur fella...

Doh !  

;- )

[Pordzhik]

... in response to Re: Nearly Chmoked!, posted by robobond on May 15, 2003

Are you going to enlighten us with the original Yiddish meaning?

[robobond]

... in response to Well I never!!, posted by Pordzhik on May 15, 2003

Pordschmock,

I was hoping you would ask.  Here it is (and this quote is 100% correct with no abridgements or alterations.)

"schmuck also shmuck (shmùk) noun
Slang.
A person regarded as clumsy or stupid; an oaf.  
[Yiddish shmok, penis, fool, probably from Polish smok, serpent, tail.]"

 The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edtion   is licensed from Houghton Mifflin Company. Copyright © 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Selected Illustrations from the Concise Columbia Encyclopedia.  Copyright © 1991 by Columbia University Press.

If you let your thought process drift outside of the borscht, what with all the Adam & Evish references to penis, foolery, a Polish Pope (or is it baser than that... like a Polish sausage maybe...), the serpent, and tail, (that's right "TAIL!"  I thought that words usage was from the '50-'60's or something), then the implications here go all the way back to biblical times and maybe catholicism.

Thus, loosely translated, CHMOK (also CHIMOK) refers to a schmuck as one who kisses a woman's photograph - or maybe has mental sex with a woman using her photograph... and we thought the concept of cybersex was new!

Man, this Freudian stuff really chmuks up my head...

robo

[cherokee]

... in response to Schmoke This!!!, posted by robobond on May 16, 2003

hvostik pa rysski! hvostik=slang for wang/penis by russians;-)

[Pordzhik]

... in response to Schmoke This!!!, posted by robobond on May 16, 2003

You mean wanker

[Cold Warrior]

... in response to Schmoke This!!!, posted by robobond on May 16, 2003

My lady wrote Chomk Tbi. I thought it meant Smack(slap) you.

[don1]

... in response to Nearly, posted by Pordzhik on May 14, 2003


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