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Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 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?

Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 3 months ago
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  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
    40·
    3 months ago

    An unorganized pile or collection of unrelated items.

    “The top drawer of the desk was a shlarmle of buttons, marbles, pens, and rubber bands.”

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      3 months ago

      Looks like you have top commemt. It’s cannon now.

      • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
        2·
        3 months ago

        Yahoo! Lol

  • kindenough@kbin.earth
    14·
    3 months ago

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

    • everett@lemmy.ml
      6·
      3 months ago

      Sounds like it would be a group of schlemiels.

      • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
        2·
        3 months ago

        It does have a kind of collective noun vibe to it.

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      3 months ago

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

  • WatDabney@sopuli.xyz
    14·
    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.

    • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      Nah, those are already called slush-bergs

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      3 months ago

      Homonym #2 of shlarmle: shlarmol

  • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

    When life gives you shmarmle, make shmarmalade.

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      3 months ago

      Instructions unclear. We’ve encountered a worse version of the coconut.

  • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
    10·
    3 months ago

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

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
      2·
      3 months ago

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

      • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
        1·
        3 months ago

        I love the added complexity

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      3 months ago

      Homonym #3 of shlarmle: shlarmal

  • maisouinon@jlai.luEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

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

    • pipes@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      3 months ago

      Schlarmlicious

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      3 months ago

      Homonym #4 of shlarmle: shlarmul

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
    8·
    3 months ago

    It’s just being a tiny tiny bit shamed.

    I’m not ashamed, just a little shlarmled

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      3 months ago

      I ran out of shlarmle homonyms to give. Can I offer you a nice “shleg” in these trying times?

  • Diddlydee@feddit.ukEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

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

    • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      I guess it could be both.

      • jbrains@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        3 months ago

        It could be both! Why not?

        • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          3 months ago

          I do love the added ambiguity.

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      3 months ago

      Homonym #5 of shlarmle: shlarmyl

  • Nemoder@lemmy.ml
    7·
    3 months ago

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

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      3 months ago

      That’s fitting. Reminds me of rescue chihuahuas.

  • Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    81·
    3 months ago

    it’s an antonym for cromulent.

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      3 months ago

      Can we just replace the presidency with Simpsons and Futurama writers?

  • dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    6·
    3 months ago

    Having disdain for cheap things

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      3 months ago

      Je L’armol

  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      3 months ago

      I read that in Attenborough’s voice.

  • zaph@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    3 months ago

    Sounds like a food

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      3 months ago

      Shlaramel

  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
    6·
    3 months ago

    A dog’s tongue all flopped out. Or maybe any noodley-shaped animal doing noodely things.

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      3 months ago

      It does remind me of a dog eating pasta.

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      3 months ago

      Honorable mentioned for the sheer specificity.

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