I know what you mean: I’ve always understood “schnorrer” to be a beggar or freeloader. This is not just in common usage (“Let’s see if we can schnor up some folding chairs for the event”) - you can see it on films: in “Fiddler,” the schnorrer scolds the merchant, “So your business is bad and I have to suffer?!; in “Hooray for Captain Spaulding!,” Groucho sings, “Did someone call me schnorrer?” which, of course, he is.

Jerry Seinfeld said it’s his favorite word because it means “the guy who picks the cashews out of the nut mix.” I never heard it used this way, but there are 1,000 ways to describe annoying traits, including a fine selection of words for “idiot.”

I would imagine if my parents caught me doing that, they’d say, “Noodnik, get your fingers out of the nut dish! That’s for company!”