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[โ€“] [email protected] 39 points 4 days 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 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 days 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 3 days ago

That's shalarming to learn.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] pipes 3 points 3 days ago

Schlarmlicious

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

Homonym #4 of shlarmle: shlarmul

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

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

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Sounds like it would be a group of schlemiels.

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

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

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

That's fitting. Reminds me of rescue chihuahuas.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 5 days 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] 1 points 3 days ago

Homonym #2 of shlarmle: shlarmol

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When life gives you shmarmle, make shmarmalade.

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

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 days 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 3 days ago

Shmalarmed - The shlarmled who are aware of the shlarmling.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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 3 days ago

I read that in Attenborough's voice.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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

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

Homonym #3 of shlarmle: shlarmal

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 days 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 3 days ago

Honorable mentioned for the sheer specificity.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

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

It does remind me of a dog eating pasta.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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

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

Homonym #5 of shlarmle: shlarmyl

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 5 days 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 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[โ€“] zaph 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

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

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

The bait you use to go fishing for shawarma

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 days 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] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Having disdain for cheap things

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The act of talking around a mouthful of hot food.

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

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Unimportant caramel.

Caramel shlarmle

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Care a mel shlarmle

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