1. a foolish or gullible person; someone easily taken advantage of
Usage: informal; Yiddish origin

Examples

• Don’t be such a shnook and fall for that obvious scam.
• The con artist targeted every shnook in the neighborhood.
• He felt like a real shnook after paying twice the normal price.
• She called him a shnook for believing the salesman’s lies.
• Only a shnook would lend money to that guy again.