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@[email protected] to [email protected] • 3 months ago

If I created the word "shlarmle" for purely phonetic reasons, what should be its definition?

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If I created the word "shlarmle" for purely phonetic reasons, what should be its definition?

@[email protected] to [email protected] • 3 months ago
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  • mub
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    2•2 months ago

    Shlarmle - To lie constantly from a position of power.

    Shlarmled - The people who the Shlarmler wants to be believed by.

    • @[email protected]
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      2•2 months ago

      Shmalarmed - The shlarmled who are aware of the shlarmling.

  • @[email protected]
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    A word or phrase existing purely for phonetic reasons conveying no further meaning or intention.

    • @[email protected]OP
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  • @[email protected]
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    5•3 months ago

    Having disdain for cheap things

    • @[email protected]OP
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      1•2 months ago

      Je L’armol

  • @[email protected]
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    7•3 months ago

    A Yiddish insult or the cream that gathers at the side of some people’s mouths.

    • @[email protected]
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      2•3 months ago

      I guess it could be both.

      • @[email protected]
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        2•3 months ago

        It could be both! Why not?

        • @[email protected]OP
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          I do love the added ambiguity.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      Homonym #5 of shlarmle: shlarmyl

  • kindenough
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    13•3 months ago

    A very incompetent person. In Dutch (Amsterdam) Jiddish the word is schlemiel.

    • @[email protected]
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      3 months ago

      Sounds like it would be a group of schlemiels.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        It does have a kind of collective noun vibe to it.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      2•2 months ago

      I’m going to make this a homonym of shlarmle: schlarmil

  • @[email protected]
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    3•3 months ago

    Its like when something you’re melting is between the state of hard and soft and gooey. “I took the cheese out of the oven, but it was a little shlarmley for my taste, so I put it back in.”

    • @[email protected]OP
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      I do like the practicality here.

  • @[email protected]
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    9•3 months ago

    The colorful milk mix at the bottom of a bowl of fruity cereal after all the crunchy parts are gone.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      1•2 months ago

      Homonym #4 of shlarmle: shlarmul

    • @[email protected]
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      3•3 months ago

      Schlarmlicious

  • @[email protected]
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    4•3 months ago

    Unimportant caramel.

    Caramel shlarmle

    • @[email protected]
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      3•3 months ago

      Care a mel shlarmle

  • @[email protected]
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    The shared sense of alarm, just before a stamped, in herding animals.

    e.g.

    The air was electric, the shlarmled herd on edge, it felt like a fly landing on an ear would start the stamped.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      2•2 months ago

      I read that in Attenborough’s voice.

  • @[email protected]
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    7•3 months ago

    Pathetic but cute. Aw, isn’t that baby 3 legged frog just shlarmle.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      That’s fitting. Reminds me of rescue chihuahuas.

  • @[email protected]
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    10•3 months ago

    It’s those roughly squared off, dirty, slushy heaps of packed snow that were plowed out of the way after the snowfall and are the only thing left after the rest of the snow has melted.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      1•2 months ago

      Homonym #2 of shlarmle: shlarmol

    • @[email protected]
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      4•3 months ago

      Nah, those are already called slush-bergs

  • wuphysics87
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    2•3 months ago

    The bait you use to go fishing for shawarma

    • @[email protected]OP
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      It sounds like something someone would make up to pretend to be cultured.

      “What’s this stuff called.” "

      “It’s, uh, called the ‘shlarmle.’ It’s what they use to lure the shawarma onto the hook before they tire it out and finally reel it in.”

  • /home/pineapplelover
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    5•3 months ago

    First thing I thought of when reading this word was: when you are so surprised and alarmed that you spit food or water out of your mouth

    • @[email protected]OP
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      3•2 months ago

      That’s shalarming to learn.

  • @[email protected]
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    7•3 months ago

    It’s the squishy stuff that makes up the ground of playgrounds

    • @[email protected]OP
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      Homonym #3 of shlarmle: shlarmal

    • @[email protected]
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      2•3 months ago

      But only after the morning seagulls have turned it into their version of guano.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        I love the added complexity

  • @[email protected]
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    5•3 months ago

    It’s just being a tiny tiny bit shamed.

    I’m not ashamed, just a little shlarmled

    • @[email protected]OP
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      I ran out of shlarmle homonyms to give. Can I offer you a nice “shleg” in these trying times?

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