I always think of a shlimazel as someone unlucky in life, unlucky in love. From Wordnik.com. [A Shlimazl ain’t no ne’er-do-well] Reference
I was prepared, this once, for Shani’s sake, to take him through every dish on the menu, but I had to stop him when his curiosity grew more philosophical and he tried to get me on the difference between shmendrik and shmerrel and shmuck and shmegege and shmulky and shlemiel and shlimazel and shvontz and the hundreds of others—the rich roll-call of dishonor in which a people who prize intelligence above all things register the minutest distinctions between ignorance, simplicity, folly, buffoonery, ineptitude, sadness, and sheer bad luck. From Wordnik.com. [Kalooki Nights] Reference
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