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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang An extremely unlucky or inept person; a habitual failure.
Wiktionary
- n. A chronically unlucky person.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything
Etymologies
- Yiddish שלימזל (shlimazl), from Middle High German slim ("crooked") and Hebrew מזל (mazzāl, "luck") (Wiktionary)
- Yiddish shlimazl, bad luck, unlucky person : Middle High German slimp, wrong + Yiddish mazl, luck (from Late Hebrew mazzāl; see mazel tov). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“- – Mitt & Michele, schlemiel, schlimazel, hasenpfeffer incorporated!!”
“Moe is the schlimazel, the guy who's always at the receiving end of bad luck.”
“What's the difference between a schlemiel, a schlimazel, and a nebbish?”
“The schlemiel/schlimazel distinction is played out throughout the series, as Curly is chronically stupid but not necessarily unlucky, while Moe is chronically unlucky but not quite as stupid as Curly.”
“Whether it's the duo who inspired 'Guy Love' and the other guy pair who would be quick to point out that there's nothing wrong with that or the Milwaukee ladies who schlemiel-ed and schlimazel-ed their way to making their dreams come true and the Miami foursome who proved friendship (and feistiness) is even more important in your 'Golden' years, these are the 20 TV”
“Hence as v. trans., to make a schlimazel of a person”
“Schlemiel means dolt, and schlimazel means an unlucky person in what language?”
“ Schlemiel means dolt, and schlimazel means an unlucky person in what language?”
“But in truth, let’s be honest, it was Marvin who shuffled, Marvin who was the true schlimazel, bad-lucked in his own mind, Marvin the Dodger fan, doomed in ways he did not wish to name.”
“The city was singly focused on manufacturing for so long, that they didn’t prepare for the technological revolution that sustained other cities when the blue collar jobs “Schlemiel, schlimazel”ed themselves out of Milwaukee.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘schlimazel’.
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Yiddishkeit
There are a few short lists of Yiddish words, but none appropriate to the glory of the language, and none that are open. Thought I'd start one, and would love contributions. I'm tagging as I go, an...
schmuck, nosh, chutzpah, shtick, kvetch, oy vey, oy gevalt, shvitz, shtik, shiksa, putz, mensch and 94 more...
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crime scene propers
because I love watching criminal minds, csi, and cold case..
proclivity, asphyxiation, vicinity, agent, victim, peccant, schlimazel, bouleversement, reciprocity, lividity, evidence, perpetrator and 2 more...
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Wrongheads
Insults that make me laugh. Some of these are re-contextualized because they sound like insults to me.
wretched, dasdardly, sniveling, dingbat, rankle, vapid, ninny, nincompoop, dolt, imbecile, fucktard, scoundrel and 173 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1401 more...
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Awesome Words, Part 1: Less Common
These are words that I have learnt over the years and want to remember
epithalamium, hustings, verger, atheling, moue, pendulous, pendragon, funicular, pericope, fettle, eleemosynary, moot and 160 more...
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So little time...
i really need to bulk up my vocabulary
coccydynia, maudlin, etiolate, cenotaph, chthonic, orotund, eclat, spendthrift, incendiary, corpulent, parsimonious, bescumber and 91 more...
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Underworld
Don DeLillo
roily, reverie, slidy, bandido, mohair, brilliantine, stupe, juke step, jowly, juke, wicket, quidbit and 391 more...
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The word collector
My collection of words that are intriguing, but don't fit my other lists.
snailery, aplasia, postulant, aigrette, caravel, frigate, capeskin, suffusion, schist, varlet, sepulchral, anisotropy and 317 more...
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Ooooh, burn!
Obscure insults
dotard, nescient, goatsucker, scrofulous, faineant, pinguid, milquetoast, sleazo, varlet, jollux, rixatrix, sciolist and 46 more...
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VergePert's Words
concomitant, effluvia, veritable, sannup, sang-froid, hugger-mugger, ephemeral, entresol, prophage, schlimazel, schlemiel, twee and 4 more...
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Schmuck
schmuck, nebbish, schlemiel, schmo, klutz, schnook, kvetch, meshuggener, noodge, nudnik, pisher, putz and 5 more...
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Miscellany, pt. s
stythe, sick-abed, skin diving, shellfish, sanguinivorous, sessile, spondylolysis, schlimazel, siliquiferous, singultus, scintillation, sivatherium and 37 more...
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Yiddish
schlub, kvetch, nuchshlepper, schlimazel, schlemiel, gleek, yeshiva, shtup, meshuga
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Funny words
Words that sound funny to me
Tweets
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madmouth lore has it a schlimazel is the one schlemiel spills his soup on Apr 23, 2009