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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
schtik is a noun meaning "(Yiddish) a little; a piece". It carries 4 recorded senses.
(Yiddish) a little; a piece
“give him a shtik cake”
“he's a shtik crazy”
“he played a shtik Beethoven”
Yiddish
(Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention
“play it straight with no shtik”
Yiddish
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for schtik come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.