SCHMOES Synonyms: 112 Similar and Opposite Words

schmoes

noun

plural of schmo, slang

as in nuts

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Noun

California is significant because the state supplies nearly half of the vegetables and more than three-quarters of the fruits and nuts eaten in the United States.

— Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 10 July 2026
Cashews and walnuts also contribute, alongside brazil nuts and pine nuts.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson July 9, Sacbee.com, 9 July 2026

Definition of nuts

Noun

There are complicated brain-chemistry factors involved that have to do with testosterone, and dopaminergic systems, and kappa-opioid receptors, all of which seem to add up to a Jim Gaffigan joke about how men are morons compared with their wives.

— McKay Coppins, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2026
The Dilbert principle — traced back to a quote in a 1995 strip — posited that managers and higher-ups are actually successful morons whose stubbornness is confused for real leadership qualities.

— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2026

Definition of morons

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The show focuses on roughnecks and billionaires in West Texas who are trying to get rich as the oil industry continues to take over the state.

— Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
But this is a look at the more dynamic version, like the roughnecks out in the patch and the offices in Dallas and Fort Worth.

— Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 17 Nov. 2025

Definition of roughnecks

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And the surviving cartel scoundrels take the parting shot by kidnapping beloved Carter, putting a hood on him and taking the boy off.

— Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 3 July 2026
New Orleans has long been notorious for embracing such scoundrels, a reputation that isn’t exactly helped by the fact that, for many years, disgraced attorneys who lost their licenses in Louisiana and applied for readmission to the bar often got it.

— Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026

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