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schlemazel

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schlemazel [ʃləˈmɑzlæ]

and schlemozzle; shlimazl
  1. n.
    an awkward, bumbling person; a loser. (Yiddish.) : And this poor schlemazel tries to get me to help him paint his fence!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

schlemazel 
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"born loser," 1948, from Yiddish shlim mazel "rotten luck," from M.H.G. slim "crooked" + Heb. 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]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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