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[-] [email protected] 40 points 2 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."

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Nah, those are already called slush-bergs

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Homonym #2 of shlarmle: shlarmol

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sounds like it would be a group of schlemiels.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

When life gives you shmarmle, make shmarmalade.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I love the added complexity

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Homonym #3 of shlarmle: shlarmal

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Schlarmlicious

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Homonym #4 of shlarmle: shlarmul

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

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

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It could be both! Why not?

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

It's just being a tiny tiny bit shamed.

I'm not ashamed, just a little shlarmled

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That's fitting. Reminds me of rescue chihuahuas.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 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.

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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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I read that in Attenborough's voice.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Having disdain for cheap things

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It does remind me of a dog eating pasta.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

That's shalarming to learn.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The act of talking around a mouthful of hot food.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

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."

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I do like the practicality here.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Shlarmle - To lie constantly from a position of power.

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Shmalarmed - The shlarmled who are aware of the shlarmling.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Unimportant caramel.

Caramel shlarmle

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Care a mel shlarmle

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The bait you use to go fishing for shawarma

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months 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."

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