Interestingly, he notes that there is a Slovene phrase "smok" that means idiot, but it was derived via the Yiddish term. Despite the fact that Yiddish is often a Germanic language, it has weighty borrowing from Slavic languages, and shmok / schmuck is one of these. It doesn't come from https://magazinhub.de/enthuellung-der-welt-des-trolese-schmuck-workshops/