schlimazel
/ʃlɪˈmɑzəl/
noun
- A chronically unlucky person; someone who is always jinxed or to whom bad things keep happening.
- My aunt calls herself a schlimazel because she lost her keys three times in one week.
- In the old joke, the schlimazel is the one who trips and spills the soup, while the schlemiel is the one who knocks it over.
- Every time we play board games, Mark is such a schlimazel — he always lands on the worst spaces.