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[โ€“] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

An unorganized pile or collection of unrelated items.

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Nah, those are already called slush-bergs

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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Sounds like it would be a group of schlemiels.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When life gives you shmarmle, make shmarmalade.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I love the added complexity

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Schlarmlicious

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's just being a tiny tiny bit shamed.

I'm not ashamed, just a little shlarmled

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It could be both! Why not?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Homonym #5 of shlarmle: shlarmyl

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That's fitting. Reminds me of rescue chihuahuas.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Honorable mentioned for the sheer specificity.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It does remind me of a dog eating pasta.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I read that in Attenborough's voice.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Having disdain for cheap things

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

That's shalarming to learn.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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."

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The act of talking around a mouthful of hot food.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Then it's almost onomatopeia at that point. Good take.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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~...

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

This has potential.

"Don't you gunchal with me, young man!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unimportant caramel.

Caramel shlarmle

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Care a mel shlarmle

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Shlarmle - To lie constantly from a position of power.

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Shmalarmed - The shlarmled who are aware of the shlarmling.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The bait you use to go fishing for shawarma

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A word or phrase existing purely for phonetic reasons conveying no further meaning or intention.

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