schlimazel
A chronically unlucky person.
I must have pressed two buttons at once, he decided; jammed the works and got this schlimazl’s eye view of reality.
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Yiddish שלימזל (shlimazl), from Middle High German slim (“crooked”) and Hebrew מזל (mazzāl, “luck”)
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry schlimazel (CC BY-SA 4.0).