schmutter
English
editEtymology
editFrom Yiddish שמאַטע (shmate, “rag”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editschmutter (countable and uncountable, plural schmutters)
- (colloquial) Clothing.
- 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 269:
- ‘Has something worried you – the business at the Cardin Foundation?’ ‘Cardin? Not my favourite schmutter.’
- (colloquial) Rubbish, worthless material.