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schlemazel

schlemazel is the alternative spelling of schlimazel.

Meaning of schlimazel

Noun

schlimazel (plural schlimazels)

  1. (US, colloquial) A chronically unlucky person.
    • 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, published 2007, page 46

Forms of schlemazel

pluralschlemazels

Questions about schlemazel

What is schlemazel the alternative spelling of?
Schlemazel is the alternative spelling of schlimazel.

Words near schlemazel in the dictionary

  1. Schleifers
  2. Schleifs
  3. Schleis
  4. Schleises
  5. schlemaite
  6. schlemazel
  7. schlemazels
  8. schlemiel
  9. schlemiels
  10. schlemihl
  11. schlemihls

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