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Definition of fancy-schmancy in English:

fancy-schmancy

(also fancy-shmancy)

Pronunciation /ˌfansēˈSHmansē/ /ˌfænsiˈʃmænsi/

adjective

informal North American

  • Extremely or excessively fancy.

    • ‘Ben has some fancy-schmancy job’
    • ‘we did not get put up in a fancy-schmancy hotel’

Origin

1930s (as fency-schmency): reduplication of fancy, after words of Yiddish origin such as schmuck, schmear.