If I created the word "shlarmle" for purely phonetic reasons, what should be its definition?
If I created the word "shlarmle" for purely phonetic reasons, what should be its definition?
An unorganized pile or collection of unrelated items.
"The top drawer of the desk was a shlarmle of buttons, marbles, pens, and rubber bands."
39 0 ReplyLooks like you have top commemt. It's cannon now.
2 0 ReplyYahoo! Lol
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A very incompetent person. In Dutch (Amsterdam) Jiddish the word is schlemiel.
14 0 ReplySounds like it would be a group of schlemiels.
6 0 ReplyIt does have a kind of collective noun vibe to it.
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I'm going to make this a homonym of shlarmle: schlarmil
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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.
14 0 ReplyNah, those are already called slush-bergs
4 0 ReplyHomonym #2 of shlarmle: shlarmol
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When life gives you shmarmle, make shmarmalade.
10 0 ReplyInstructions unclear. We've encountered a worse version of the coconut.
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it's an antonym for cromulent.
8 0 ReplyCan we just replace the presidency with Simpsons and Futurama writers?
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It's just being a tiny tiny bit shamed.
I'm not ashamed, just a little shlarmled
8 0 ReplyI ran out of shlarmle homonyms to give. Can I offer you a nice "shleg" in these trying times?
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The colorful milk mix at the bottom of a bowl of fruity cereal after all the crunchy parts are gone.
8 0 ReplySchlarmlicious
3 0 ReplyHomonym #4 of shlarmle: shlarmul
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A Yiddish insult or the cream that gathers at the side of some people's mouths.
8 0 ReplyI guess it could be both.
4 0 ReplyIt could be both! Why not?
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Homonym #5 of shlarmle: shlarmyl
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Pathetic but cute. Aw, isn't that baby 3 legged frog just shlarmle.
7 0 ReplyThat's fitting. Reminds me of rescue chihuahuas.
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When you wake up for work after sleeping 2 hours and 28 minutes and you stumble around in the dark looking for your phone which is blasting an alarm over and over.
6 0 ReplyHonorable mentioned for the sheer specificity.
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A dog's tongue all flopped out. Or maybe any noodley-shaped animal doing noodely things.
6 0 ReplyIt does remind me of a dog eating pasta.
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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.
6 0 ReplyI read that in Attenborough's voice.
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Sounds like a food
6 0 ReplyShlaramel
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The act of talking around a mouthful of hot food.
5 0 ReplyThen it's almost onomatopeia at that point. Good take.
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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."
5 0 ReplyI do like the practicality here.
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Unimportant caramel.
Caramel shlarmle
4 0 ReplyCare a mel shlarmle
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Shlarmle - To lie constantly from a position of power.
Shlarmled - The people who the Shlarmler wants to be believed by.
3 0 ReplyShmalarmed - The shlarmled who are aware of the shlarmling.
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It sounds like when a person stammers or mumbles because they're uncertain.
Parent (sternly): What were you doing when the vase fell over?
Child (shlarmling): I was... umm... I was over at the hermidgd...
3 0 ReplyThis has potential.
"Don't you gunchal with me, young man!
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The bait you use to go fishing for shawarma
2 0 ReplyIt 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."
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A word or phrase existing purely for phonetic reasons conveying no further meaning or intention.
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