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SCHLIMAZEL

• 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.

• SCHLIMAZEL (noun)

Sense 1

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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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