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schlimazel colloq. (chiefly U.S.).|ʃlɪˈmɒz(ə)l|
Also schlimazzel, schlimazl, shl-, etc.
[Yiddish, f. MHG. slim crooked + Heb. mazzāl luck.]
A consistently unlucky, accident-prone person, a ‘born loser’. Hence as v. trans., to make a schlimazel of (a person) (nonce-use).
1948N. Ausubel Treasury of Jewish Folklore iii. i. 344 Sholom Aleichem drew endless amusement out of the misadventures of his irrepressible, daydreaming schlimazls. 1960Encounter May 84/1 In the schlimazl of Jewish tradition, I found the ancestors of Bellow's ‘Angie March’. If the schlimazl went into the hat business, babies would be born without heads. 1962J. Ish-Kishor Tales from Wise Men of Israel 199 She shrugged. What could one make of such a shlimmazzel? 1963T. Pynchon V. i. 24 It seemed sometimes that he put himself deliberately in the way of hostile objects, as if he were looking to get schlimazzeled out of existence. 1968L. Rosten Joys of Yiddish 347 A shlimazl wryly sighed: ‘From mazel to shlimazl is but a tiny step; but from shlimazl to mazel—oy, is that far!’ 1972J. Wambaugh Blue Knight (1973) i. 15 Just bring me a cold drink, you old schlimazel. 1980Times 12 June 16/8 When a waiter spills soup on a customer, the waiter is a shlemiel and the customer is a shlemazl. |