If I created the word "shlarmle" for purely phonetic reasons, what should be its definition?
If I created the word "shlarmle" for purely phonetic reasons, what should be its definition?
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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."
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Looks like you have top commemt. It's cannon now.
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Yahoo! Lol
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A word or phrase existing purely for phonetic reasons conveying no further meaning or intention.
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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
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That's shalarming to learn.
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A very incompetent person. In Dutch (Amsterdam) Jiddish the word is schlemiel.
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I'm going to make this a homonym of shlarmle: schlarmil
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Sounds like it would be a group of schlemiels.
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It does have a kind of collective noun vibe to it.
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The colorful milk mix at the bottom of a bowl of fruity cereal after all the crunchy parts are gone.
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Schlarmlicious
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Homonym #4 of shlarmle: shlarmul
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Pathetic but cute. Aw, isn't that baby 3 legged frog just shlarmle.
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That's fitting. Reminds me of rescue chihuahuas.
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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.
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Homonym #2 of shlarmle: shlarmol
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Nah, those are already called slush-bergs
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When life gives you shmarmle, make shmarmalade.
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Instructions unclear. We've encountered a worse version of the coconut.
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Shlarmle - To lie constantly from a position of power.
Shlarmled - The people who the Shlarmler wants to be believed by.
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Shmalarmed - The shlarmled who are aware of the shlarmling.
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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.
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I read that in Attenborough's voice.
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It's the squishy stuff that makes up the ground of playgrounds
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Homonym #3 of shlarmle: shlarmal
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But only after the morning seagulls have turned it into their version of guano.
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I love the added complexity
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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.
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A dog's tongue all flopped out. Or maybe any noodley-shaped animal doing noodely things.
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It does remind me of a dog eating pasta.
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It's just being a tiny tiny bit shamed.
I'm not ashamed, just a little shlarmled
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I ran out of shlarmle homonyms to give. Can I offer you a nice "shleg" in these trying times?
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Sounds like a food
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Shlaramel
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it's an antonym for cromulent.
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Can we just replace the presidency with Simpsons and Futurama writers?
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The bait you use to go fishing for shawarma
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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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Having disdain for cheap things
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Je L'armol
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The act of talking around a mouthful of hot food.
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Then it's almost onomatopeia at that point. Good take.
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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."
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I do like the practicality here.
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Unimportant caramel.
Caramel shlarmle
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Care a mel shlarmle
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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...
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This has potential.
"Don't you gunchal with me, young man!
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