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SCHLIMAZEL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does schlimazel mean?
• SCHLIMAZEL (noun)
The noun SCHLIMAZEL has 1 sense:
1. (Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything
Familiarity information: SCHLIMAZEL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
schlimazel; shlimazel
Hypernyms ("schlimazel" is a kind of...):
unfortunate; unfortunate person (a person who suffers misfortune)
Domain category:
Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)
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