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meshugaas slang.|mɪˈʃʊgɑːs| Also mishugas. [ad. Yiddish meshugaas f. Heb. mĕshuggā‘ (see prec.).] Madness, craziness; nonsense, foolishness.
1907I. Zangwill Ghetto Comedies 59 ‘Hannah, will you explain to me what this meshuggas (madness) is?’ cried S. Cohn, lapsing into a non-Anglicism. 1970L. M. Feinsilver Taste of Yiddish i. 59 Everyone has his own wackiness—often heard as ‘We all have our own mishugas’. 1971Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 28 Mar. 4/2 He is so well-acquainted and up-to-date with genes and other anthropological meshugaas. |