schnook
sh nook
- n (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised
- His failure in June to accept an offer from Microsoft that would have paid stockholders $33 a share was the coup de schnook.
- Producer-Director Billy Wilder tells of a sweet-natured schnook (brilliantly played by Jack Lemmon) who shoots up the corporate ladder by turning his apartment into a glad pad .
- Alan Young decided when he was 14 that he would be an actor and that his specialty would be the role of the likable dolta type that show business calls a "schnook" (rhymes.