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7 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together
originBorrowed from Yiddish שמיר (shmir, “smear, spread”); compare German schmieren. Doublet of smear, smearcase. By surface analysis, schm- + smear. The sense “bribe” is from Yiddish שמירן (shmirn, “to smear, to bribe”), senses found also in German schmieren. The implication is that a bribe helps “lubricate” an interaction.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
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- macher 13
- maches 13
- sachem 13
- samech 13
- schema 13
- chams 12
- charm 12
- chasm 12
- chems 12
- mache 12
- machs 12