An unorganized pile or collection of unrelated items.
"The top drawer of the desk was a shlarmle of buttons, marbles, pens, and rubber bands."
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A very incompetent person. In Dutch (Amsterdam) Jiddish the word is schlemiel.
Sounds like it would be a group of schlemiels.
It does have a kind of collective noun vibe to it.
I'm going to make this a homonym of shlarmle: schlarmil
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.
Nah, those are already called slush-bergs
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When life gives you shmarmle, make shmarmalade.
Instructions unclear. We've encountered a worse version of the coconut.
It's the squishy stuff that makes up the ground of playgrounds
But only after the morning seagulls have turned it into their version of guano.
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The colorful milk mix at the bottom of a bowl of fruity cereal after all the crunchy parts are gone.
Schlarmlicious
Homonym #4 of shlarmle: shlarmul
It's just being a tiny tiny bit shamed.
I'm not ashamed, just a little shlarmled
I ran out of shlarmle homonyms to give. Can I offer you a nice "shleg" in these trying times?
A Yiddish insult or the cream that gathers at the side of some people's mouths.
I guess it could be both.
It could be both! Why not?
I do love the added ambiguity.
Homonym #5 of shlarmle: shlarmyl
Pathetic but cute. Aw, isn't that baby 3 legged frog just shlarmle.
That's fitting. Reminds me of rescue chihuahuas.
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.
Honorable mentioned for the sheer specificity.
Sounds like a food
Shlaramel
Having disdain for cheap things
Je L'armol
A dog's tongue all flopped out. Or maybe any noodley-shaped animal doing noodely things.
It does remind me of a dog eating pasta.
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.
I read that in Attenborough's voice.
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."
I do like the practicality here.
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
That's shalarming to learn.
Unimportant caramel.
Caramel shlarmle
Care a mel shlarmle
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~...
This has potential.
"Don't you gunchal with me, young man!
Shlarmle - To lie constantly from a position of power.
Shlarmled - The people who the Shlarmler wants to be believed by.
Shmalarmed - The shlarmled who are aware of the shlarmling.
A word or phrase existing purely for phonetic reasons conveying no further meaning or intention.
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The bait you use to go fishing for shawarma
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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