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[-] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 month 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."

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago
[-] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 month 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.

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Nah, those are already called slush-bergs

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Homonym #2 of shlarmle: shlarmol

[-] kindenough@kbin.earth 14 points 1 month ago

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

[-] everett@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sounds like it would be a group of schlemiels.

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago

When life gives you shmarmle, make shmarmalade.

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

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

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] maisouinon@jlai.lu 9 points 1 month ago

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

[-] pipes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Schlarmlicious

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Homonym #4 of shlarmle: shlarmul

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 8 points 1 month ago

It's just being a tiny tiny bit shamed.

I'm not ashamed, just a little shlarmled

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 8 points 1 month ago

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

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago
[-] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

It could be both! Why not?

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I do love the added ambiguity.

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[-] Nemoder@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That's fitting. Reminds me of rescue chihuahuas.

[-] Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month 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.

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Honorable mentioned for the sheer specificity.

[-] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

Having disdain for cheap things

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[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

It does remind me of a dog eating pasta.

[-] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I read that in Attenborough's voice.

[-] zaph@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago
[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month 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

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

That's shalarming to learn.

[-] PoorYorick@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

The act of talking around a mouthful of hot food.

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Lazerouselaseras@startrek.website 5 points 1 month 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."

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I do like the practicality here.

[-] spizzat2@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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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[-] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 3 points 1 month ago

Unimportant caramel.

Caramel shlarmle

[-] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Care a mel shlarmle

[-] mub@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Shlarmle - To lie constantly from a position of power.

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

[-] renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 month ago

Shmalarmed - The shlarmled who are aware of the shlarmling.

[-] Migmog@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

The bait you use to go fishing for shawarma

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month 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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