| 单词 | schlemiel |
| 释义 | schlemiel (once / 137434 pages) n A schlemiel is a somewhat dopey, awkward person. You might angrily call your brother a schlemiel after he drops the cake you've spent all day making, stumbles, and sits on it. Nothing every goes quite right for a schlemiel — he's the guy who never seems to get any good luck, and who's less than brilliant and not particularly graceful. A schlemiel in a movie is an object of fun, perfect for laughing at. In real life, it's pretty hard to be a schlemiel. The word schlemiel means "bungler" in Yiddish, from a character called Peter Schlemihl in a classic German fable. WORD FAMILYschlemiel: schlemiels USAGE EXAMPLESBut what schlemiels they are to have given their ticket to one so politically incompetent! New York Times(Aug 02, 2016) Helms offers a different kind of patriarch than Chase — less the smirky schemer and more the sweetheart schlemiel. Los Angeles Times(Jul 10, 2015) “Any schlemiel and most schlamozels try to cut costs when times are bad.” New York Times(Jul 25, 2014) n (Yiddish) a dolt who is a habitual bungler Syn|Hyper shlemiel simple, simpleton a person lacking intelligence or common sense |
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