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

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

Shmalarmed - The shlarmled who are aware of the shlarmling.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

That's shalarming to learn.

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

The bait you use to go fishing for shawarma

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

It sounds like something someone would make up to pretend to be cultured.

"What's this stuff called." "

"It's, uh, called the 'shlarmle.' It's what they use to lure the shawarma onto the hook before they tire it out and finally reel it in."

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's fitting. Reminds me of rescue chihuahuas.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

I read that in Attenborough's voice.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Unimportant caramel.

Caramel shlarmle

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Care a mel shlarmle

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks 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] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Homonym #4 of shlarmle: shlarmul

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Schlarmlicious

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

It does remind me of a dog eating pasta.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

Honorable mentioned for the sheer specificity.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When life gives you shmarmle, make shmarmalade.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Sounds like it would be a group of schlemiels.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The act of talking around a mouthful of hot food.

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

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

This has potential.

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

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