meshuga

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (1)  · 
Perhaps, in the future, all of humanity will finally witness the "light of loving and forgiveness" and begin to understand that war and terror are "meshuga."

View all »
Examples (7)

  • How, then, shall we Jews survive in such a distorted and meshuga world, both as individuals, and as the always-fragile Jewish State? —  Israelated - English Israel blogs
  • So, in our meshuga world, Israel builds a security fence to protect its citizens from wanton murder, and the UN chooses to condemn not the murderers, but the security fence. —  Israelated - English Israel blogs
  • Perhaps, in the future, all of humanity will finally witness the "light of loving and forgiveness" and begin to understand that war and terror are "meshuga." —  Israelated - English Israel blogs
  • Part of it is the sheer sense of wonder that this city founded on the sands in 1909, by meshuga (crazy) Zionist pioneers, not only still exists a hundred years later but crackles with energy twenty-four hours a day. —  isRealli - The New Blog of the State of Israel
  • I know because I know, I might not be able to prove it to you, but I dont need to prove it to myself "Same goes with this, it's meshuga but we can't exaplin exactly how we know that —  Aish Weekly Articles
 

Tags

meshuga hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 25 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (1)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Yiddish meshuge, from Hebrew məšuggā', participle of šugga', to be mad; see šgʿ in Semitic roots.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

by American Heritage

Charts

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

concedes · spurl · Steal · JCC · unsporting

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich