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@[email protected] to [email protected] • 4 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?

@[email protected] to [email protected] • 4 months ago
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  • Lettuce eat lettuce
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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.”

    • @[email protected]OP
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      Looks like you have top commemt. It’s cannon now.

      • Lettuce eat lettuce
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        Yahoo! Lol

  • @[email protected]
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    Having disdain for cheap things

    • @[email protected]OP
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      Je L’armol

  • @[email protected]
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    It’s the squishy stuff that makes up the ground of playgrounds

    • @[email protected]OP
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      Homonym #3 of shlarmle: shlarmal

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    it’s an antonym for cromulent.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      Can we just replace the presidency with Simpsons and Futurama writers?

  • @[email protected]
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    When life gives you shmarmle, make shmarmalade.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      Instructions unclear. We’ve encountered a worse version of the coconut.

  • @[email protected]
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    Pathetic but cute. Aw, isn’t that baby 3 legged frog just shlarmle.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      That’s fitting. Reminds me of rescue chihuahuas.

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

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      It does remind me of a dog eating pasta.

  • @[email protected]
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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.

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      Honorable mentioned for the sheer specificity.

  • @[email protected]
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    The act of talking around a mouthful of hot food.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      Then it’s almost onomatopeia at that point. Good take.

  • mub
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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
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    The bait you use to go fishing for shawarma

    • @[email protected]OP
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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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