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shmatte
/ ˈʃmɑtə /
noun
- a rag
- anything shabby
- modifier clothes: a jocular use
the shmatte trade
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Example Sentences
“Pretty much from the moment we landed in this country we were shmatte people,” she said.
From New York Times
On most of them, it looks like a rag—a shmatte, Joe calls it—but on her it’s high fashion.
From Literature
Hannah was momentarily speechless, then muttered under her breath, “It’s a rag, a shmatte. ”
From Literature
“He’s a shmatte now,” said Hannah, remembering Rivka’s word.
From Literature
In her black tennis shoes, white bloomers, red shmatte and strand of outrageously clunky pearls, Grandma commands Big Apple’s intimate single ring, conveying at once feistiness, mousiness, acrobatic grace, prankishness and a transgressive streak as wide as a clown shoe.
From New York Times
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