SHLIMAZEL

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

schlimazel; shlimazel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("shlimazel" is a kind of...):

unfortunate; unfortunate person (a person who suffers misfortune)

Domain category:

Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)