schlemiel
\shluh-MEEL\
noun
1. Slang. an awkward and unlucky person for whom things never turn out right.
Quotes
All he could say was "I can't figure it out How could I be such a schlemiel?"
-- Patrick Dennis, Little Me, 1961
Origin
Schlemiel entered English in the late 1800s from the Yiddish word shlemil. It originates from a Biblical and Talmudic figure named Shelumiel.
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