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schlimazel

English

Etymology

Yiddish ??????? (shlimazl), from Middle High German slim (“crooked”) and Hebrew ???? (mazz?l, “luck”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?l??m??z?l/

Noun

schlimazel (plural schlimazels)

  1. (colloquial, chiefly US) A chronically unlucky person.
    • 1962, Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America 2007, p. 46:
      I must have pressed two buttons at once, he decided; jammed the works and got this schlimazl’s eye view of reality.

Alternative forms

  • schlimazl
  • shlimazel
  • shlimazl
  • shlemozzle

Related terms

  • schlemiel, shemozzle

Translations

References

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schlemiel

English

Alternative forms

  • schlemihl
  • shlemiel

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish ??????? (shlimil).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?l??mi?l/
  • Rhymes: -i?l

Noun

schlemiel (plural schlemiels)

  1. A loser or a fool.
  2. A person who is clumsy or who hurts others emotionally.

Translations

See also

  • schlimazel
  • schmuck
  • schmendrick

Dutch

Alternative forms

  • sjlemiel

Etymology

From Yiddish ??????? (shlimil).

Pronunciation

Noun

schlemiel m (plural schlemielen, diminutive schlemieltje n)

  1. (informal) schlemiel

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