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Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 年前

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

      • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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        Yahoo! Lol

  • WatDabney@sopuli.xyz
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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.

    • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Nah, those are already called slush-bergs

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
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      Homonym #2 of shlarmle: shlarmol

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

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      Sounds like it would be a group of schlemiels.

      • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
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        It does have a kind of collective noun vibe to it.

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
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      I’m going to make this a homonym of shlarmle: schlarmil

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    When life gives you shmarmle, make shmarmalade.

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
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      Instructions unclear. We’ve encountered a worse version of the coconut.

  • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
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    It’s the squishy stuff that makes up the ground of playgrounds

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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      But only after the morning seagulls have turned it into their version of guano.

      • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
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        I love the added complexity

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
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      Homonym #3 of shlarmle: shlarmal

  • maisouinon@jlai.lu
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    The colorful milk mix at the bottom of a bowl of fruity cereal after all the crunchy parts are gone.

    • pipes@sh.itjust.works
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      Schlarmlicious

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
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      Homonym #4 of shlarmle: shlarmul

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    It’s just being a tiny tiny bit shamed.

    I’m not ashamed, just a little shlarmled

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

  • Diddlydee@feddit.uk
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    A Yiddish insult or the cream that gathers at the side of some people’s mouths.

    • neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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      I guess it could be both.

      • jbrains@sh.itjust.works
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        It could be both! Why not?

        • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
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          I do love the added ambiguity.

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
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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.

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
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      That’s fitting. Reminds me of rescue chihuahuas.

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    it’s an antonym for cromulent.

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
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      Can we just replace the presidency with Simpsons and Futurama writers?

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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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.

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      Honorable mentioned for the sheer specificity.

  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    A dog’s tongue all flopped out. Or maybe any noodley-shaped animal doing noodely things.

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
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      It does remind me of a dog eating pasta.

  • dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Having disdain for cheap things

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
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      Je L’armol

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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.

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
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      I read that in Attenborough’s voice.

  • zaph@sh.itjust.works
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    Sounds like a food

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
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      Shlaramel

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