schnook
Easy-to-trick dope
A schnook is a pitifully meek or gullible person—someone easily taken advantage of or pushed around.
The word comes from Yiddish and carries affectionate contempt: Don't be such a schnook—stand up for yourself.
A schnook isn't malicious, just hapless.
Ineffectual, timid person
- putzFoolish, worthless person
- yutzInept, clueless person
- nudnikPestering, tedious person
- klutzAwkward, graceless person
shmo · mensch · kvetch · yenta · schlimazel · gonif · kibitzer
Innocently unsuspecting
- credulousProne to blind trust
- trustingInclined to believe others
- unsuspectingNot anticipating danger
- impressionableEasily influenced or affected
green · ingenuous · unsophisticated · unwary · simple · easily fooled · overtrusting · wide-eyed
sucker
Easily fooled person
pigeon · pushover · easy mark · fall guy · soft touch · stooge · gull · rube · sap · target
nebbish
Ineffectual, timid person
klutz · shmo · mensch · kvetch · yenta · schlimazel · gonif · kibitzer
naive
Innocently unsuspecting
- credulousProne to blind trust
- trustingInclined to believe others
- unsuspectingNot anticipating danger
impressionable · green · ingenuous · unsophisticated · unwary · simple · easily fooled · overtrusting · wide-eyed · clueless
simpleton
Unintelligent person
nitwit · blockhead · nincompoop · numbskull · dope · dummy · bonehead · ignoramus · birdbrain · knucklehead
- Yiddishchutzpah, kvetch, mensch, schlep, tchotchke
- Jewish comedyBorscht Belt, Jerry Seinfeld, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Larry David
- foolsfool, idiot, moron, fools, idiots
- suckerssucker, lollipop, Dum Dum, Tootsie Pop, all-day sucker