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meshuga, meshugga, a. slang.|mɪˈʃʊgə|
Also mash-, meshuggah, meshuger, mishugge, etc.
[ad. Yiddish meshuge, f. Heb. mĕshuggā‘ part. of shāgag, to go astray, wander; cf. G. meschugge crazy.]
Mad, crazy; stupid. The adj. has the form meshugener, meshugenah, etc., when it precedes its noun. This form is also used as n.
1892I. Zangwill Childr. Ghetto I. 156 She's meshuggah—quite mad! 1900Atlantic Monthly LXXXVI. 108/2 ‘Meschugener,’ leered the banker. 1922Joyce Ulysses 157 Meshuggah. Off his chump. 1930Amer. Mercury Dec. 455/1 Me broad gets caught in a snow-storm [= becomes drugged with cocaine] an' goes meshuga. 1952V. Gollancz My Dear Timothy xii. 110 My father probably murmured to my mother.., ‘The boy's meshuggah (which means cracked).’ 1959B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green ii. ii. 44, I don't like saying this, Bessie, but your boy is meshuger. 1961B. Vawter Conscience of Israel i. 22 The ‘son of nabi’ sent by Elisha to anoint Jehu is called by Jehu's companions ‘this madman’—meshugga. 1962J. Baldwin Another Country (1963) iii. i. 377 We finally got that meshugena of a broken-down movie star in town. 1968L. Rosten Joys of Yiddish 237 A crazy man is a meshuggener. A crazy woman is a meshuggeneh. That meshuggener! Has he gone yet? 1971Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 28 Mar. 4/3 Going steady!..What kind of a meshugenah idea is this? 1972Listener 24 Aug. 243/3 My favourite speaker was known to us all as Meshuggener Moishe. Ibid. 244/1 That Moishe, bless him, is he a meshuggener! 1973Jewish Chron. 19 Jan. 24/1 The kids at school call me meshugga. That means crazy. |