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# Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/word-of-the-day-1526/
- Published: 2019-07-29T18:15:52.000Z
- Updated: 2019-07-29T22:06:58.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

The word for today is…

schlemazel also schlimazel (noun) – An extremely unlucky or inept person; a habitual failure.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/schlemazel?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : “Born loser,” 1948, from Yiddish shlim mazel “rotten luck,” from Middle High German slim “crooked” + Hebrew mazzal “luck.” British slang shemozzle “an unhappy plight” (1889) is probably from the same source.

A shlemiel is the fellow who climbs to the top of a ladder with a bucket of paint and then drops it. A shimazl is the fellow on whose head the bucket falls. \[Rep. Stephen J. Solarz (D.-N.Y.), 1986\]