shlimazel

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I always think of a shlimazel as someone unlucky in life, unlucky in love.

A Shlimazl ain’t no ne’er-do-well 2004
You probably know more Yiddish than you think, thanks to "Seinfeld," Heeb magazine and Jewish screenwriters, who made words such as shlep, klutz, nosh, shlimazel (remember the "Laverne and Shirley" hopscotch theme song?) and shmooze household lingo.

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