schlemieln.

Brit.

/ʃləˈmiːl/, U.S.

/ʃləˈmi(ə)l/

Forms: 1800s– schlemiel, 1800s– schlemihl, 1800s– shlemiel, 1900s– shlemiehl, 1900s– shlemihl.

Origin: A borrowing from Yiddish. Etymon: Yiddish shlimil.

Etymology: < Yiddish shlimil ( > German Schlemihl (19th cent.)), probably < Shelumiel (Hebrew Šĕlumī'ēl), the name of a person in the Bible (Numbers 1:6).It is unclear how exactly the figure in the Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures came to denote a blunderer. Talmudic writings identified Shelumiel with Zimri, a Jewish man who had sex with the Midianite woman Kozbi (Numbers 25) and was subsequently killed by Phinehas. The proximate source is probably the Jewish folk tale about a man called Schlemihl, said to have lived in the 13th cent., whose wife became pregnant after he had been away on a journey for eleven months, and who was then made to believe that he was the father of her unborn child. The tale was popularized by Adalbert von Chamisso's Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (1814).

colloquial (originally and chiefly in Jewish usage).

An awkward or clumsy person, a blunderer; a habitually unlucky person; a foolish or pathetic person.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > one who or that which is unsuccessful > one who is a failure

botch1769

non-starter1839

schlemiel1868

also-ran1896

rinky-dink1900

flivver1915

wash-out1918

jabroni1919

bust1922

blowout1925

dropout1930

zilch1933

sad sack1943

loser1955

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > confused, muddled person > [noun]

mafflardc1450

juffler15..

dromedary1567

madbrain1570

batie buma1586

addle-head1592

blunderkin1596

nit1598

addle-pate1601

hash1655

blunderbuss1692

blunderhead1692

shaffles1703

fog-pate1732

blunderer1741

puzzle-pate1761

slouch1767

étourdi1768

botch1769

puddle1782

bumble1789

scatter-brain1790

addle-brain1799

puzzle-head1815

shaffler1828

chowderhead1833

muddlehead1833

muddler1833

flounderer1836

duffer1842

muddle-pate1844

plug1848

incompetent1866

schlemiel1868

dinlo1873

drumble-dore1881

hodmandod1881

dub1887

prune1895

foozler1896

bollock1916

messer1926

Pilot Officer (also P.O.) Prune1942

spaz1965

spastic1981

1868 Scattered Nation Jan. 4/1 A Schlemiel always drops his bread on the buttered side, lets slip through his fingers any favourable chance.

1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto I. i. i. 30 The withered old grandmother..cursed her angrily for a Schlemihl.

1932 N.Y. Times 10 Nov. 23/7 If they expect to beat me by having their names writ in, they're schlemiels—saps, if you get me.

1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? iv. 68 Don't talk like a schlemiel, you schlemiel. Sounds like you're letting them push you around.

1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Nov. p. xxxv/2 Bellow's..free-swinging translation of ‘Gimpel, the Fool’—probably the best schlemiel story in the literature.

1963 T. Pynchon V. i. 37 Only something that, being a schlemihl, he'd known for years: inanimate objects and he could not live in peace.

1969 L. Michaels Going Places 21 A hundred fifty-five pounds of stomping shlemiel.

2001 J. Diamond C: Because Cowards get Cancer Too (new ed.) xii. 232 I wasn't a cancer patient with special rights, just another schlemiel who'd broken his toe.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	schlemiel
释义	schlemieln. Brit. /ʃləˈmiːl/, U.S. /ʃləˈmi(ə)l/ Forms: 1800s– schlemiel, 1800s– schlemihl, 1800s– shlemiel, 1900s– shlemiehl, 1900s– shlemihl. Origin: A borrowing from Yiddish. Etymon: Yiddish shlimil. Etymology: < Yiddish shlimil ( > German Schlemihl (19th cent.)), probably < Shelumiel (Hebrew Šĕlumī'ēl), the name of a person in the Bible (Numbers 1:6).It is unclear how exactly the figure in the Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures came to denote a blunderer. Talmudic writings identified Shelumiel with Zimri, a Jewish man who had sex with the Midianite woman Kozbi (Numbers 25) and was subsequently killed by Phinehas. The proximate source is probably the Jewish folk tale about a man called Schlemihl, said to have lived in the 13th cent., whose wife became pregnant after he had been away on a journey for eleven months, and who was then made to believe that he was the father of her unborn child. The tale was popularized by Adalbert von Chamisso's Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (1814). colloquial (originally and chiefly in Jewish usage). An awkward or clumsy person, a blunderer; a habitually unlucky person; a foolish or pathetic person. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > one who or that which is unsuccessful > one who is a failure botch1769 non-starter1839 schlemiel1868 also-ran1896 rinky-dink1900 flivver1915 wash-out1918 jabroni1919 bust1922 blowout1925 dropout1930 zilch1933 sad sack1943 loser1955 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > confused, muddled person > [noun] mafflardc1450 juffler15.. dromedary1567 madbrain1570 batie buma1586 addle-head1592 blunderkin1596 nit1598 addle-pate1601 hash1655 blunderbuss1692 blunderhead1692 shaffles1703 fog-pate1732 blunderer1741 puzzle-pate1761 slouch1767 étourdi1768 botch1769 puddle1782 bumble1789 scatter-brain1790 addle-brain1799 puzzle-head1815 shaffler1828 chowderhead1833 muddlehead1833 muddler1833 flounderer1836 duffer1842 muddle-pate1844 plug1848 incompetent1866 schlemiel1868 dinlo1873 drumble-dore1881 hodmandod1881 dub1887 prune1895 foozler1896 bollock1916 messer1926 Pilot Officer (also P.O.) Prune1942 spaz1965 spastic1981 1868 Scattered Nation Jan. 4/1 A Schlemiel always drops his bread on the buttered side, lets slip through his fingers any favourable chance. 1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto I. i. i. 30 The withered old grandmother..cursed her angrily for a Schlemihl. 1932 N.Y. Times 10 Nov. 23/7 If they expect to beat me by having their names writ in, they're schlemiels—saps, if you get me. 1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? iv. 68 Don't talk like a schlemiel, you schlemiel. Sounds like you're letting them push you around. 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Nov. p. xxxv/2 Bellow's..free-swinging translation of ‘Gimpel, the Fool’—probably the best schlemiel story in the literature. 1963 T. Pynchon V. i. 37 Only something that, being a schlemihl, he'd known for years: inanimate objects and he could not live in peace. 1969 L. Michaels Going Places 21 A hundred fifty-five pounds of stomping shlemiel. 2001 J. Diamond C: Because Cowards get Cancer Too (new ed.) xii. 232 I wasn't a cancer patient with special rights, just another schlemiel who'd broken his toe. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1868
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