Definitions
Etymologies
- Yiddish מישעגאָסס (mishegoss), from משוגע (meshuge), “crazy”, from Hebrew משוגע (meshugga`), “crazy”, from שׁוּגַּע (shugga‘) (“be driven mad”), שִׁיגַּע (shigga‘) (“drive mad”). Compare Russian мишигас (mishigas). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But the noted scholar Leo Rosten provides alternative spellings of "mishegoss" and "mishegaas.”
“I think it's great that in the midst of all this mishegoss on the debt ceiling, budget, deficits, stimulus, the committee is taking the time to look at the longer term challenges that middle class families have been struggling with well before the recession took hold.”
The Huffington Post: Jared Bernstein: The Middle Class Squeeze
“After the Janet Jackson bosom mishegoss, the NFL got scared of hiring young people, because all young people want to do is take off their clothes, and if you watch television, you know the last thing you ever see on TV is young people taking off their clothes.”
“So, the mishegoss that is the overseas market means that all those sorely needed production jobs are coming back home for Christmas, right?”
“And somewhere in this mishegoss, someone is making a shitload of dosh.”
“And it will be back, even though creator Matthew Weiner and the studio and network are in the midst of their usual negotiation mishegoss.”
“It's hardly shocking that Hanukkah and its festival of lights, doesn't hold a candle to Santa, the sleigh, the ambitious elves and his whole chimney mishegoss.”
The Huffington Post: Wendy Sachs: 'Tis the Season Jews Can't Compete
“VELEZ-MITCHELL: The defense couldn ` t even get bail reduced today because of this mishegoss, as they say.”
“SHEINDLIN: ... we call it mishegoss -- that mishegoss costs the taxpayers in the UK $83,000 a year.”
“Instead, we got a grand mishegoss of secrets, lies, and a concluding theological debate-puzzle that would tax Locke/Jeremy Bentham over on Lost.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mishegoss’.
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Yiddishkeit
There are a few short lists of Yiddish words, but none appropriate to the glory of the language, and none that are open. Thought I'd start one, and would love contributions. I'm tagging as I go, an...
schmuck, nosh, chutzpah, shtick, kvetch, oy vey, oy gevalt, shvitz, shtik, shiksa, putz, mensch and 94 more...
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She She She
Words containing "she" but excluding words beginning with "she"
usher, ashen, eggshell, freshen, bolshevik, woodshed, abashed, whirling dervishes, usherettes, diminishes, quashed, unsheathed and 51 more...
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madmelanie's Words
monkey, folderol, snark, snarky, flibbertigibbet, faith, asshat, pirouette, avuncular, exegesis, memento mori, verisimilitude and 379 more...
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Newsweek
All the words that are fit to be made up. Or, you know, to get into a weekly newsmagazine. I've been meaning to make this list for a long time.
brohawk, blasian, ghitalian, mcmansion, mcstrip mall, cornet wales, i could tell you ..., mackerel-snapper, tous les beaux es..., in the tank, longheadedness, kusa and 101 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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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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yiddish words
kvetch, nosh, schmo, verklempt, shamus, zaftig, chutzpah, nosh, gunish, mishegoss, nebbish, putz and 2 more...
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CravinforClavin's Words
bellicose, megalopolis, spurious, interstitial, elegiac, crushing, proselytize, strident, hirsute, peripatetic, stultify, apoplectic and 66 more...
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cornwall
petrific, insouciance, solecism, buffet, mishegoss, concatenate, oeuvre, automagically, stygian, termagant
Tweets
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chelster Also spelled mishegas, meshugaas, mishegaas.
Apr 12, 2011
sionnach Safire on mishegoss
The root is the same as that for meshuggene Mar 1, 2011
chained_bear "As part of the country-club drift of well-to-do Jews, of their general Episcopalianization, golf has become a great mania—mishegoss, in the good Yiddish word—for so many Jewish men of my generation."
—Joseph Epstein, "'Uncle Bernie' and the Jews," Newsweek, January 19, 2009 Jan 23, 2009