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unlucky

English

Etymology

From un- +? lucky.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n?l?ki/
  • Rhymes: -?ki

Adjective

unlucky (comparative unluckier or more unlucky, superlative unluckiest or most unlucky)

  1. Unfortunate, marked by misfortune.
  2. Inauspicious.
  3. Having ill luck.
  4. Bringing ill luck.

Derived terms

  • unluckily
  • unluckiness
  • unluckier
  • unluckiest

Translations

References

  • unlucky in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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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

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