Schumer
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Definitions
- 1 A surname from German.
"The digital ads open over a shot of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer, the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, while a narrator declares: “For years, it paralyzed Washington: Partisan political dysfunction.”"
Example
More examples"“The coronavirus is slowing our economy to a near standstill,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said on the Senate floor last week."
Etymology
The surname Schumer was an occupational name for a cobbler. The name Schumer is derived from the Old German words "schuoch" and the suffix "mann," which means shoe maker. North German (Schümer): nickname from Middle Low German schumer ‘good-for-nothing’, ‘vagabond’.
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