schlimazel
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- noun
- /ʃlɪˈmɑːzəl/
- Slang
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desgraciado
- Every time they play poker, she inevitably loses; her friends joke that she is a real schlimazel.
- schlemiel and a schlimazel
Examples
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Schlimazel?
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I didn't mean to cause such a schlimazel.
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I mean, you are like Einstein compared to those schlimazels.
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A trifecta, that's a miracle from God for a schlimazel like you.
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That's not a Schlemiel, exclaims D. B. Two, that's a Schlimazel.
Fiction book (1995) -
There are no schlimazel (Yiddish for "crooked luck") genes that attract life's pies in the face.
Blog text (1) -
He always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time; we often call him a schlimazel.
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Despite his best efforts, he has become known as the office schlimazel for his endless bad luck.
Synonyms
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A person who does not succeed at things they try
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A person who has bad luck or a hard life
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A person who has bad luck or problems
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A person who often fails and seems unlucky
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A person who often fails to reach their goals
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9.9
A clumsy person who often makes mistakes and causes small accidents
A person who has very bad luck and often fails
Antonyms
How Unlucky
Surface Forms
Etymology
Schlimazel comes from Yiddish and joins schlimm, a German word for 'bad', and mazl, from Hebrew mazal which means 'luck'. So a schlimazel is literally someone with 'bad luck', a person who always seems to fail or have accidents.