Meaning & use
Schmears
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Soft spreads of a substance, such as cream cheese, applied generously onto food.
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The bagel shop offers schmears in flavors like scallion and lox.
She ordered two bagels with different schmears to share.
A note on using this word
From Yiddish "shmir," meaning "a smear"; also used informally to mean "the whole deal," as in "the whole schmear."
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