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shlemozzle

shlemozzle is the alternative form of shemozzle.

shlemozzle is the alternative form of schlimazel.

Meaning of shemozzle

Noun

shemozzle (plural shemozzles)

  1. (slang) A state of chaos or confusion.
    • "No end of a shemozzle there’s been there lately," he said. "Marina Gregg's been having hysterics most days. Said some coffee she was given was poisoned."1962, Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
  2. (slang) A quarrel or rumpus.
    • If Will comes out of this shemozzle.1901, James Maclaren Cobban, The Golden Tooth
    Synonyms:
    ruckus

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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 shlemozzle

pluralshlemozzles

Questions about shlemozzle

What is shlemozzle the alternative form of?
Shlemozzle is the alternative form of shemozzle.

Words near shlemozzle in the dictionary

  1. shld
  2. shlemiehl
  3. shlemiehls
  4. shlemiel
  5. shlemiels
  6. shlemozzle
  7. shlemozzles
  8. shlenter
  9. shlentered
  10. shlentering
  11. shlenters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shlemozzle (page history and authors); shemozzle (page history and authors); schlimazel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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