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shlimazl

shlimazl is the alternative form 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 shlimazl

pluralshlimazls

Questions about shlimazl

What is shlimazl the alternative form of?
Shlimazl is the alternative form of schlimazel.

Words near shlimazl in the dictionary

  1. shlicking
  2. shlicks
  3. Shligold
  4. shlimazel
  5. shlimazels
  6. shlimazl
  7. shlimazls
  8. Shlisselburg
  9. shlitty
  10. SHLLV
  11. SHLLVs

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