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Schmatte vs Shmatte - What's the difference?

schmatte | shmatte | Alternative forms |

Shmatte is a alternative form of schmatte.



As nouns the difference between schmatte and shmatte

is that schmatte is an alternative spelling of lang=en while shmatte is a rag.

schmatte

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • *1995 , Mary Cantwell, Manhattan, when I was young , page 139:
  • *:A night in April. We are dressing for a dinner party, I in a black skirt with a porthole over which I have dropped an empire-waisted blue schmatte'. '''Schmatte , along with "merch" for merchandise and "matchy-matchy," as in "That sweater and skirt are too matchy-matchy," is among the words I have picked up at ''Mlle .

    • Anagrams

    * *

    shmatte

    English

    Alternative forms

    * schmatte, schmata, schmatta, schmate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Yinglish) A rag.
  • (Yinglish) An old article of clothing.
  • An item of clothing: a "rag" in fashion- and clothing-industry slang.

    • Quotations

    * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=December 12, author=David M. Halbfinger, title=A Film Producer Guided More by His Heart Than by His Calculator, work=New York Times citation , passage=I said, Why am I in the shmatte business? Mr. Kimmel said of his beginners luck. }}

    References

    * http://www.yiddishdictionaryonline.com/dictionary/??????.html