Ed Jaffe writes:
It is Yiddish: spelled and pronounced "Schlemozzle".
My goyishe understanding is that of the schlemiel-schlemozzle pair the
schlemozzle is the passive victim, the one on whom the active schlemiel
spills the soup.
It was so anyway when I was a graduate student; but that of course was long,
long ago.
John Gilmore
Ashland, MA 01721-1817
USA
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