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单词 meshugas
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meshugasn.

Brit. /məʃʊˈɡas/, U.S. /məʃəˈɡɑs/
Inflections: Plural meshugasim, (occasionally) meshugasen.
Forms: 1900s– meschugas, 1900s– meshugaas, 1900s– meshugass, 1900s– meshuggas, 1900s– meshugges, 1900s– meshuggus, 1900s– mishegaas, 1900s– mishegas, 1900s– mishegoss, 1900s– mishugas.
Origin: A borrowing from Yiddish. Etymon: Yiddish meshugas.
Etymology: < Yiddish meshugas < Hebrew mĕšuggaʿaṯ , use as abstract noun of feminine of mĕšuggaʿ meshuga adj.
slang.
Esp. in Jewish usage: madness, craziness; nonsense, foolishness; (as a count noun) a foolish idea; a foible, an idiosyncracy.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness
woodnessc1000
woodshipc1000
madshipc1225
woodc1275
woodhead1303
ragec1330
amentiaa1398
madnessa1398
frenzy?a1400
madheada1400
maddingc1400
alienation?a1425
furiosity?a1475
derverye1480
forcenery1480
furiousnessc1500
unwitness1527
unwitting1527
demencya1529
straughtness1530
insaniea1538
brainsickness1541
lunacy1541
amenty1557
distraughtness1576
dementation?1583
straughtedness1583
insanity1590
crazedness1593
bedlam1598
dementia1598
insanation1599
non compos mentis1607
distraction1609
daffinga1614
disinsanitya1625
cerebrosity1647
vecordy1656
fanaticness1662
non-sanity1675
insaneness1730
craziness1755
hydrophobia1760
vecord1788
derangement1800
vesania1800
a screw loose1810
unsoundness1825
dementedness1833
craze1841
psychosis1847
crackiness1861
feyness1873
crack1891
meshugas1898
white ant1908
crackedness1910
pottiness1933
loopiness1939
wackiness1941
screwballism1942
kink1959
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > madness, extreme folly > [noun]
woodnessc1000
woodhead1303
madnessc1384
ragec1390
lunacya1592
idiotism1592
wittolry1592
midsummer madnessa1616
hare-brainedness1656
idiotry1757
insanity1840
meshugas1898
1898 I. Zangwill Dreamers of Ghetto xiii. 418 Reconcile the Jews and the Christians! Meshuggas—madness.
1907 I. Zangwill Ghetto Comedies 59 ‘Hannah, will you explain to me what this meshuggas (madness) is?’ cried S. Cohn, lapsing into a non-Anglicism.
1929 I. Goller Five Bks. Mr. Moses i. v. 41 Und not to listen to you meshugassen (idiocies)—no?
1965 C. Bermant Ben preserve Us (1967) i. i. 8 It isn't medicine really, psychiatry, it's a meschugas, and very profitable.
1978 J. Hyams Pool viii. 110 How did we get into all this meshuggas with Kazin?
1982 R. Friedman Proofs of Affection xiii. 101 ‘I'm not interested in all your meshugasim.’.. ‘It's not a meshugas.’
1993 Toronto Life 56/2 He now owns a three-bedroom house at the Fountains of Palm Beach, a good couple of hours' drive from the meshugges of Miami Beach.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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