Definitions
Etymologies
- From Yiddish משוגענע (meshugene) adj., משוגענער (meshugener, "lunatic"), n. Compare משוגע (meshuge, "crazy"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The meshuggener from our street who used to bully you.”
“Tsedraiter Ike—himself named after a weakness of the brain that was nearly but not quite the same as that suffered by a meshuggener.”
“I told you not to read that Dostoyevsky and that meshuggener Kafka when you were fifteen. ”
“She said, “This Sandy sounds like a meshuggener (Yiddish for a crazy person).”
“After two hours persuading myself I didn’t care where the meshuggener had got to, I thought I had better go and look for him.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘meshuggener’.
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250 Further Spelling Words
Another compilation of spelling words suitable for intermediate to advanced spellers.
venturi, aesir, affenpinscher, rottweiler, amanuensis, balletomane, hansard, sangfroid, yukata, capriccio, cuisse, heriot and 237 more...
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Fall Words 2009
sgraffito, maestá, tempera, size, gesso, obsolescence, hinterland, taboret, pram, amygdalate, pandect, loggia and 105 more...
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Words
Words I like.
jejune, eunoia, swallow, spelunk, milquetoast, echolalia, trumble, toothsome, synecdoche, taciturn, kerfuffle, aleatoric and 98 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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Portnoy's Complaint
Words gathered while reading Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth.
bonditt, goy, kishkas, goyische, shkotzim, if-onlying, pishachs, schvartze, milchiks, flaishedigeh, galvanic, chazerai and 123 more...
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Underworld
Don DeLillo
roily, reverie, slidy, bandido, mohair, brilliantine, stupe, juke step, jowly, juke, wicket, quidbit and 391 more...
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Vocab
All the words I've come across whose definitions I did not know then.
aberration, abrogate, abscond, abstruse, acolyte, actuate, adulation, advert, aggrandize, aggro, ague, alimony and 273 more...
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Schmuck
schmuck, nebbish, schlemiel, schmo, klutz, schnook, kvetch, meshuggener, noodge, nudnik, pisher, putz and 5 more...
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nifty wordies
Words that happen to make me smile.
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yiddish words
meshuggener, schlep, yenta, kvetch, shtick, chutzpah, nosh, schmuck
Tweets
Looking for tweets for meshuggener.
bilby It's on hug, mollybear :-) Nov 5, 2008
mollusque The stress is on "shug". Nov 4, 2008
maesepedro does anyone know where the stress falls on this word? It could be excellent in lots of ways. But I think best if the stress falls on the 'u'... Nov 4, 2008