Why this word is great
SCHLIMAZEL — [Noun] A chronically unlucky person. From Yiddish שלימזל (shlimazl), woven from Middle High German slim ("crooked, bad") and Hebrew מזל (mazzāl, "luck")—a linguistic collision of misfortune. Unlike the "schlemiel" (who spills the soup) or the "schmendrik" (who stumbles into folly), the schlimazel is the one upon whom the soup is spilled, the bystander eternally in the wrong place at the wrong time. It is the umbrella that inverts in a gust, the train door closing a second too soon, the single raindrop that finds its way down the back of your collar—life’s minor cruelties accumulating like stones in a shoe, proof that the universe has neither malice nor mercy, only indifference.