Definitions
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- adj. Crazy, insane.
- n. A madman; a crazy person, a nutter.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. senseless; crazy
- n. (Yiddish) a crazy fool
Etymologies
From Yiddish משוגענע (meshugene) adj., משוגענער (meshugener, "lunatic"), n. Compare משוגע (meshuge, "crazy"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
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The meshuggener from our street who used to bully you.
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Tsedraiter Ike—himself named after a weakness of the brain that was nearly but not quite the same as that suffered by a meshuggener.
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I told you not to read that Dostoyevsky and that meshuggener Kafka when you were fifteen. "
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She said, “This Sandy sounds like a meshuggener (Yiddish for a crazy person).
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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.
bilby commented on the word meshuggener
It's on hug, mollybear :-)
November 5, 2008
mollusque commented on the word meshuggener
The stress is on "shug".
November 5, 2008
maesepedro commented on the word meshuggener
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'...
November 5, 2008