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Schlimazel

//ʃləˈmɑːzəl// noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A chronically unlucky person. US, colloquial

    "I must have pressed two buttons at once, he decided; jammed the works and got this schlimazl’s eye view of reality."

  2. 2
    (Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish שלימזל (shlimazl), from Middle High German slim (“crooked”) and Hebrew מזל (mazzāl, “luck”)

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