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schlep
Schleswig-Holstein
schlieren
schlieren photography
schlimazel
schlock
schlockmeister
schlub
schm-
schmaltz
schmatte
schmeer
Schmidt camera
Schmidt system
Schmidt telescope
Schmitt trigger
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schm-
schm- or shm-


prefix 
Definition:
 
somebody or something purported or purporting to be genuine, real, or of the expected high quality but really not ( used dismissively in rhyming compounds )
doctor-schmoctor
[< Yiddish]
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