2021-01-06 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด S – Schmier & schmeer & smear

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2021-01-06

ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด S – Schmier & schmeer & smear

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Dictionary.com

ออกเสียง Schmier (not shown in any Dictionary)

ออกเสียง schmeer or schmear noun = ‘SHMEER’

ออกเสียง smear = ‘SMEER”

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

'Smear'

In other testimony before the House committee,

Marie Yovanovitch sent many people to the dictionary to look up smear and kneecapping.

The ousted U.S. ambassador to Ukraine said Friday

she was the target of a “smear campaign” by President Donald Trump

and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani

— an effort she said undermined U.S. national security interests and emboldened Russia.

Marie Yovanovitch, delivering emotional public testimony before House impeachment investigators, told lawmakers she was “kneecapped” by Americans who allied themselves with corrupt Ukrainian interests, and was abandoned by State Department leaders who refused to publicly defend her.

— Andrew Deiderio and Kyle Cheney, Politico (politico.com), 15 Nov. 2019

Smear has been in English for a considerable length of time,

since before the 12th century, as both a verb and a noun.

The earliest meaning of the verb is

“to overspread with something unctuous, viscous, or adhesive”;

the noun began with the meaning of “a viscous or sticky substance.”

The sense relevant to Yovanovitch’s remarks

(“a usually unsubstantiated charge or accusation against a person or organization”)

is a recent one, dating from the early 20th century.

Smear campaign has been in use since the beginning of the 1930s,

and has long been found in political contexts.

Letter Cites Achievements of President — G. O. P. Director Writes Precinct Leaders of Nation — Bitterly Attacks Raskob — Says He Tries to Embarrass Administration and Carries on ‘Smear’ Campaign

— (headline) The Daily Times (Davenport, IA), 14 Jan. 1931

Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression

Schmier & schmeer & smear

A currently popular slang expression

meaning “everything” is “the whole schmier (or schmeer or smear).”

It is not clear what spelling is intended or correct.

The most common spelling is smear,

a word defined as meaning “an oily substance” and “a smudge, spot, or stain.”

Schmier is a variant formadapted from the German word

for smear cheese, or Schmierkase (cottage cheese).

Schmeer is a slang term for personsand things

(possibly the meaning closest to the aforementionedphrase itself)

and a colloquial word meaning “to bribe.”

However the expression is spelled,

it is both slangy and trite and should be used rarely, if at all.