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Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 3 months ago

If I created the word "shlarmle" for purely phonetic reasons, what should be its definition?

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If I created the word "shlarmle" for purely phonetic reasons, what should be its definition?

Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 3 months ago
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    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.worldOP
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      Looks like you have top commemt. It’s cannon now.

      • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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        Yahoo! Lol

  • davel@lemmy.ml
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    When life gives you shmarmle, make shmarmalade.

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
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      Instructions unclear. We’ve encountered a worse version of the coconut.

  • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
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    It’s the squishy stuff that makes up the ground of playgrounds

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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      But only after the morning seagulls have turned it into their version of guano.

      • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
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        I love the added complexity

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
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      Homonym #3 of shlarmle: shlarmal

  • Nemoder@lemmy.ml
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    Pathetic but cute. Aw, isn’t that baby 3 legged frog just shlarmle.

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
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      That’s fitting. Reminds me of rescue chihuahuas.

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    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.worldOP
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      I read that in Attenborough’s voice.

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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    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.worldOP
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      Honorable mentioned for the sheer specificity.

  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    A dog’s tongue all flopped out. Or maybe any noodley-shaped animal doing noodely things.

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
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      It does remind me of a dog eating pasta.

  • zaph@sh.itjust.works
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    Sounds like a food

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
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      Shlaramel

  • PoorYorick@lemmy.world
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    The act of talking around a mouthful of hot food.

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
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      Then it’s almost onomatopeia at that point. Good take.

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    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

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      That’s shalarming to learn.

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    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…

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldOP
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      This has potential.

      "Don’t you gunchal with me, young man!

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    Shlarmle - To lie constantly from a position of power.

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

  • wuphysics87@lemmy.ml
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    The bait you use to go fishing for shawarma

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

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