schlimazel

Yiddish שלימזל (shlimazl), from Middle High German slim (“crooked”) and Hebrew מזל (mazzāl, “luck”)

• IPA^(key): /ʃləˈmɑːzəl/

schlimazel (plural schlimazels)

1. (colloquial, chiefly US) A chronically unlucky person.
   • 1962, Philip K. Dick, “The Man in the High Castle”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 46:

     I must have pressed two buttons at once, he decided; jammed the works and got this schlimazl’s eye view of reality.

   • 2024 May 16, “Who Wants 30,000 Used Teslas?”, in Intelligencer‎, retrieved 2024-05-16:

     Hertz is an early contender for Wall Street’s schlimazel of the decade, the big unlucky lemon that just can’t seem to get anything right.

• schlemazel, schlemozzle, schlimazl, shlimazel, shlimazl, shlemozzle

• schlemiel, shemozzle