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the surname that means shoemaker until it doesn't, cobbled from yiddish into american punchlines.
means an occupational surname derived from the german/yiddish word for shoemaker, still carried by families with zero interest in footwear.
from from middle high german schuoch (shoe) plus the agent suffix -er, filtered through yiddish shuster; like smith or baker, it fossilized a trade into a last name long after the trade stopped mattering.
same rootshares dna with schuster, shoemaker, cobbler surnames
joe shusterco-created superman, drew krypton with a shoemaker's name
variants aboundshuster, schuster, schuester all cousins