schlimazel
English
Etymology
Yiddish שלימזל (shlimazl), from Middle High German slim (“crooked”) and Hebrew מזל (mazzāl, “luck”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃləˈmɑːzəl/
Noun
schlimazel (plural schlimazels)
- (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.
- 1962, Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America 2007, p. 46:
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- “Words hardest to translate - The list by Today Translations”, in (Please provide the title of the work), accessed 16 August 2010, archived from the original on 25 January 2009
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