Shlemazel

Shlemazel
Luckless person; unlucky person; one with perpetual bad luck; unlucky oaf; the poor souls who are victims of shlemiels (see); the one always having the soup spilled on them. (It is said that "the shlemiel spills the soup on the shlemazel".)

Yiddish-English dictionary (in roman letters). 2013.

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