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Joe Shmoe (also spelled Joe Schmoe and Joe Schmo and "Yo Hschmo") is one of the most commonly used fictional names in American English. Adding a "Shm" to the beginning of a word is meant to diminish, negate, or dismiss an argument (for instance, "Rain, shmain, we've got a game to play"). This process was adapted in English from the use of the "schm" prefix in Yiddish to dismiss something; as in, "Fancy, schmancy." While "schmo" ("schmoo," "schmoe") was thought by some linguists to be a clipping of Yiddish "schmuck",〔.〕 an etymology supported by the ''Oxford English Dictionary'',〔.〕 that derivation is not universally accepted. ==See also== *Joe Bloggs *John Doe *John Q. Public *Average Joe *Placeholder name *Schmuck (pejorative) *Man on the street 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joe Shmoe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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