A word or phrase existing purely for phonetic reasons conveying no further meaning or intention.
An unorganized pile or collection of unrelated items.
“The top drawer of the desk was a shlarmle of buttons, marbles, pens, and rubber bands.”
Looks like you have top commemt. It’s cannon now.
Yahoo! Lol
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.
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
Pathetic but cute. Aw, isn’t that baby 3 legged frog just shlarmle.
That’s fitting. Reminds me of rescue chihuahuas.
A very incompetent person. In Dutch (Amsterdam) Jiddish the word is schlemiel.
I’m going to make this a homonym of shlarmle: schlarmil
Sounds like it would be a group of schlemiels.
It does have a kind of collective noun vibe to it.
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.
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
Nah, those are already called slush-bergs
When life gives you shmarmle, make shmarmalade.
Instructions unclear. We’ve encountered a worse version of the coconut.
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.
It’s the squishy stuff that makes up the ground of playgrounds
Homonym #3 of shlarmle: shlarmal
But only after the morning seagulls have turned it into their version of guano.
I love the added complexity
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.
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.
A Yiddish insult or the cream that gathers at the side of some people’s mouths.
Homonym #5 of shlarmle: shlarmyl
I guess it could be both.
It could be both! Why not?
I do love the added ambiguity.
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?
