schlimazel

  • 21sad sack — Synonyms and related words: Bowery bum, Milquetoast, baby, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, big baby, blighter, budmash, bum, bummer, caitiff, chicken, crybaby, derelict, devil, doormat, drifter, drunkard, dull tool, good for naught, good… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 22schlemiel — Synonyms and related words: asshole, boob, booby, chump, ding a ling, dingbat, dingdong, dupe, fall guy, galoot, goof, gull, hard luck guy, hardcase, jerk, jerk off, klutz, loser, mark, mutt, pigeon, poor unfortunate, prize sap, sad sack, sap,… …

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  • 23unfortunate — Synonyms and related words: abortive, afflictive, apocalyptic, awful, awkward, bad, badly off, baleful, baneful, black, bodeful, boding, bootless, calamitous, catastrophic, cursed, dark, deplorable, depressed, dire, disastrous, dismal,… …

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  • 24victim — Synonyms and related words: also ran, babe, beasts of venery, big game, boob, booby, butt, byword, byword of reproach, casualty, chump, cinch, credulous person, cull, defeatee, derision, duck, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, fair game, fall guy,… …

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  • 25schlemiel — (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. Sl. loser, bungler, *schlimazel, *Charlie Brown, *zero, dupe, victim, *sap, *patsy, *stooge, *sucker, fool …

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  • 26shemozzle — [19] Shemozzle is one of a number of Yiddish words beginning with sh to have found their way into English. Most are relatively recent introductions, via American English – schlemiel ‘fool, blunderer’ [19] (possibly from a Biblical character… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 27schlemiel —    , shlemiel    (shleh MEEL) [Yiddish, from Hebrew] In slang, an awkward, inept, or clumsy person; a bungler; one who is easily deceived.    See also klutz, schlimazel.    Benny Profane, self styled schlemiel wanderer through the streets of… …

    Dictionary of foreign words and phrases

  • 28shlimazl —    See schlimazel …

    Dictionary of foreign words and phrases

  • 29loser — n 1. also ran, runner up, Inf. defeatee; the vanquished, the defeated; good loser, Inf. sport, good sport. 2.Informal. failure, lead balloon, Sl. flop, Sl. washout, Inf. dud, Sl. bomb, Inf. clunker, Inf. lemon, Sl. clinker, Inf. bummer, Sl. bust; …

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  • 30ne’er-do-well — n 1. good for nothing, Chiefly Brit. wastrel, Inf. no account, black sheep, Fr. vaurien. worthless person; unfortunate, Sl. loser, Sl. schlemiel, Sl. schlimazel, Sl. sad sack; idler, faineant, loafer, drone, do nothing, Inf. bum; sluggard,… …

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