schlimazel

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Etymology

Yiddish שלימזל (shlimazl), from Middle High German slim (“crooked”) and Hebrew מזל (mazzāl, “luck”)

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Noun

schlimazel (plural schlimazels)

  2. (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, published 2007, page 46:
      I must have pressed two buttons at once, he decided; jammed the works and got this schlimazl’s eye view of reality.
    • 2024 May 16, “Who Wants 30,000 Used Teslas?”, in Intelligencer‎, retrieved 2024-05-16:
      Hertz is an early contender for Wall Street’s schlimazel of the decade, the big unlucky lemon that just can’t seem to get anything right.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “Words hardest to translate - The list by Today Translations”, in Global Oneness‎, 2010 August 16 (last accessed), archived from the original on 25 January 2009
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