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[-] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 week 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 week ago

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

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

Nah, those are already called slush-bergs

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

Homonym #2 of shlarmle: shlarmol

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

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

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

Sounds like it would be a group of schlemiels.

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

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

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

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

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

When life gives you shmarmle, make shmarmalade.

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

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

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

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

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

Schlarmlicious

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

Homonym #4 of shlarmle: shlarmul

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 8 points 1 week 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 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 week ago

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

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

It could be both! Why not?

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

I do love the added ambiguity.

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

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

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

That's fitting. Reminds me of rescue chihuahuas.

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

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

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week 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 week ago

Honorable mentioned for the sheer specificity.

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

Having disdain for cheap things

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

It does remind me of a dog eating pasta.

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

I read that in Attenborough's voice.

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

That's shalarming to learn.

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

The act of talking around a mouthful of hot food.

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

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

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 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I do like the practicality here.

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

Unimportant caramel.

Caramel shlarmle

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

Care a mel shlarmle

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

Shmalarmed - The shlarmled who are aware of the shlarmling.

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

The bait you use to go fishing for shawarma

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