Zelig
1- a chameleonlike person who is unusually ubiquitous.
Origin of Zelig
1Zelig
2- a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “blessed.”
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Contemporary Examples of zelig
Franco himself is the Zelig of the literary world these days.
3 Must Reads: ‘Kayak Morning,’ ‘Mr. g,’ and ‘Alex Gilvarry’Hillary Kelly, Mythili Rao, Jacob Silverman
February 8, 2012
He is the Zelig from hell, a Francostein monster, a send-up of democracy and a travesty of meritocracy.
The New York Times called Gorseki the “Zelig of New York Fashion Week” last year.
Historical Examples of zelig
Before we get pistols and learn to use them well be asleep under a quilt of earth, said Zelig.
The White Terror and The RedAbraham Cahan
I suppose there can be no doubt that “Zelig” is by all odds the most nobly conceived and finely wrought story of the year.
With them the cantor signed a contract by which Zelig was bound to him as a kind of musical apprentice for three years.
The Spirit of the GhettoHutchins Hapgood
The Bellman, in which “Zelig” appeared, is remarkable for the brilliance and power of its fiction.