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Even if you can't convince them that Obama isn't a Muslim (or that being a Muslim isn't a bad thing), at least you can point out that Sarah Palin is a real meshugana!
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A "Jewish" themed fixie would be just plain meshugana.
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"I'm still alive, and I have to find a way to try to feel something," she says toward the end, and so what if everything else she's saying may be totally meshugana?
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She used words like meshugana and mensch and had brought matzo ball soup for ethnic food week and the days she missed school with a cold or stomachache were always Jewish holidays.
News & Politics 2010
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She used words like meshugana and mensch and had brought matzo ball soup for ethnic food week and the days she missed school with a cold or stomachache were always Jewish holidays.
News & Politics Patrick Crerand 2010
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"You need a meshugana to make any idea work," said Eliach, who insisted that Carp was "the sandak," or godfather "of this whole thing."
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She used words like meshugana and mensch and had brought matzo ball soup for ethnic food week and the days she missed school with a cold or stomachache were always Jewish holidays.
News & Politics 2010
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So, in our meshugana world, Israel builds a security fence to protect its citizens from wanton murder, and the UN chooses to condemn not the murderers, but the security fence.
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How, then, shall we Jews survive in such a distorted and meshugana world, both as individuals, and as the always-fragile Jewish State?
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'Is it safe to go there?' and who think I am mashugana (Yiddish for crazy) for going to Israel - I may well be meshugana with respect to many things I have or will attempt, however likely not this one.
avivamagnolia commented on the word meshugana
Yiddish: a crazy person.
Also, me⋅shug⋅ga⋅na, me⋅shug⋅ge⋅ner /məˈʃʊgənər/ muh-shoog-uh-ner
Origin:1880–85; < Yiddish meshugener, equiv. to meshuga meshuga + epenthetic n + -er -er
January 18, 2009
sionnach commented on the word meshugana
Dear avivamagnolia:
Welcome to Wordie. I have been enjoying some of your comments, but would like to request that you reconsider your strategy of simply copying dictionary entries as commentary on the word in question. I believe it's fair to say that most people who have been using the site for any reasonable length of time have realized that this is really of very little interest to site users. For several reasons, not the least of which is that there is a little row of dictionary links right over the comment box for each word, so that anyone can consult a dictionary with a single click.
I recognize that you may find it helpful somehow to paste in this kind of material. But - and I hope other users will add their views here - I think that listing all possible spelling variations of a word that has been listed as obsolete to begin with pretty much defines "boring", and doing so is a discourtesy to other site users.
Interesting citations or links to material that people would not otherwise find are always welcome.
This is just one person's opinion, obviously, and you are free to use the site in any way you see fit. But I would appreciate your giving my request some consideration.
Thanks. Welcome again to the site.
January 18, 2009
vanishedone commented on the word meshugana
Maybe the private note feature would be of use here...
I don't want to get embroiled in an argument, but I would like to point out that if the dictionary being quoted is still under copyright, copious quoting might prove legally awkward too.
January 18, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word meshugana
Seconding sionnach's comments, in the kindest way possible... and hoping he/she sees them soon.
January 19, 2009