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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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schmendrick

English

Alternative forms

  • shmendrick

Etymology

From Yiddish ????????? (shmendrik), from the name of a character in the operetta Shmendrik, oder Die komishe Chaseneh (Schmendrik, or The Comical Wedding) by Avrom Goldfaden.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??m?nd??k/

Noun

schmendrick (plural schmendricks)

  1. A stupid person; a fool; a nincompoop.
    Some schmendrick from downstairs asked if you could turn down your stereo.

Translations

See also

  • schlemiel
  • schmuck

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