shmatta

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Noun

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shmatta (plural shmattas)

  1. Alternative form of shmatte
    • 1996, Elaine K. Winik, Still Looking Forward, Rutledge Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 198:
      Why do you wear that shmatta on your head?
    • 2003, Parrot Talk: A Retrospective of Works by Kim MacConnel, Santa Monica Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 20:
      In his nouvelle Chinoiserie, he manages to exoticize the overly familiar, disregarded patterns of everyday shmattas.
    • 2003, Bennett Lear Fairorth, “Venice”, in The Land Where My American Mother Died—Palermo, Sicily, iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 139:
      Did you see the sandals Mary was wearing with that shmatta?
    • 2022 May 9, Cindy Adams, “Kim Kardashian wore stripper shoes to the Met Gala”, in New York Post[1]:
      Word is Kim K — known to occasionally cloak her behind in designer fake-o’s — sported $60 stripper shoes with that Marilyn [Monroe] shmatta.