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[โ€“] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 5 points 6 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

That's shalarming to learn.

[โ€“] Migmog@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] mub@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 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€“] renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf 3 points 6 days ago

Shmalarmed - The shlarmled who are aware of the shlarmling.

[โ€“] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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."

[โ€“] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 week 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€“] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] kindenough@kbin.earth 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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

[โ€“] everett@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Sounds like it would be a group of schlemiels.

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

[โ€“] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 week 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.

Homonym #2 of shlarmle: shlarmol

[โ€“] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Nah, those are already called slush-bergs

[โ€“] davel@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When life gives you shmarmle, make shmarmalade.

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

[โ€“] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

Homonym #3 of shlarmle: shlarmal

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[โ€“] maisouinon@jlai.lu 9 points 1 week 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@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

Schlarmlicious

Homonym #4 of shlarmle: shlarmul

[โ€“] Asafum 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's just being a tiny tiny bit shamed.

I'm not ashamed, just a little shlarmled

[โ€“] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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

[โ€“] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

Homonym #5 of shlarmle: shlarmyl

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[โ€“] Nemoder@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

That's fitting. Reminds me of rescue chihuahuas.

[โ€“] Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

[โ€“] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Having disdain for cheap things

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

I read that in Attenborough's voice.

[โ€“] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week 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.

Honorable mentioned for the sheer specificity.

[โ€“] dessalines@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] zaph@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] PoorYorick@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The act of talking around a mouthful of hot food.

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

[โ€“] Lazerouselaseras@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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."

[โ€“] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I do like the practicality here.

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