... the schlemiel is the one who spills the soup and the schlimazel is the one that's spilled on. Jeremy Dauber, Jewish Comedy: A Serious History, 2017
A recent and, even by its own lofty standards, especially hilarious and cringingly tasteless episode of “South Park” features the passionate and petulant schlimazel, middle-aged dad Randy Marsh, watching TV, when a commercial for a fictional consumer genetics company comes on the screen. Misha Angrist, "A History of Humanity Told Through Genetics," New York Times, November 17, 2017
So much of their business was done via e-mail that the phone was almost unnecessary--a sort of quaint atavism that nobody thought to use first--but this morning the ringing had been ceaseless. Debra Ginsberg, What the Heart Remembers, 2012
Because the United States has proved successful in absorbing people from so many different backgrounds, the American political elite has, since the mid-20th century at least, tended to look on group identity as a kind of irrational atavism. Park MacDougald, "Can America's Two Tribes Learn to Live Together?" New York, April 19, 2018
... he was too old to doss on furniture night after night. Coleen Nolan, Envy, 2010
I didn't want a place to doss down. Jonathan Gash, The Gondola Scam, 1984
“What's a brontide?” she said, keeping him from bolting. ... "They're like thunder on a clear day. They're like the unexplained sounds of artillery when there's no battle." Gary Fincke, "Faculty X," Emergency Calls, 1996
... he urges that brontides predominate in countries which are subject to earthquakes, that they are often heard as heralds of earthquakes, and are specifically frequent during seismic series, and that brontides are sometimes accompanied by very feeble tremors. Charles Davison, A Manual of Seismology, 1921
He looks at Faust’s romance with Gretchen (Camilla Horn) with an agonized tenderness, and at Mephisto’s courtship of the concupiscent Marthe (Yvette Guilbert) with rib-shaking ribaldry. Richard Brody, "What to Stream This Weekend," The New Yorker, February 24, 2018
He'd have bet his Porsche, from that one look, that she had summed him up as one more concupiscent old guy, easily manipulated. Edward Falco, Wolf Point, 2005
adrift on a gold-brown leather recliner, / the little finger of her left hand tapping / on the crocheted antimacassar, / palpebral twitches of chronic hypnagogia. Rodney Jones, "Requiem for Reba Portis," Village Prodigies, 2017
In his palpebral vision, she beckoned. Richard Fariña, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, 1966
Up, Dullard! It is better service to enjoy a novel than to mump. Robert Louis Stevenson, "Letter to his Mother, December 30, 1883" Selected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, 1997
Come, my dear fellow, do not spoil the excellent impression you have already made. I am sure to mump and moan is not in you ... John Collis Snaith, The Wayfarers, 1902