Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Crazy; senseless.
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- adjective Alternative form of
meshugge .
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- adjective senseless; crazy
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Jamie Lee Curtis, Curtis 'daughter from his first marriage with "Psycho" actress Janet Leigh, teared up as she described a man who was, she said, "a little meshuga" – Yiddish for crazy – but always full of life.
Tony Curtis Laid To Rest AP 2010
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Jamie Lee Curtis, Curtis 'daughter from his first marriage with "Psycho" actress Janet Leigh, teared up as she described a man who was, she said, "a little meshuga" – Yiddish for crazy – but always full of life.
Tony Curtis Laid To Rest AP 2010
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Once you're aware of this meshuga (crazy) food on your plate, you may wonder why no one bothered to tell you that there are flounder parts (or RoundUp) in your Chopped Salad?
Maria Rodale: The First Ever National Heirloom Exposition, Santa Rosa, California Maria Rodale 2011
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With the advent of radio in the 1920's and 1930's America entered it's next phase of new media meshuga.
Rich Nadworny: The Tone of the Debate Sounds... Familiar? 2009
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In the February issue of The Atlantic Monthly, Robert D. Kaplan extrapolated from the implosion of public order in West Africa and posited a world slowly overwhelmed by sociopathic street gangs, each with its own charismatic gangsta-meshuga.
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Kahane was a gangsta-meshuga, a nut case who could talk the talk.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And their reaction was, as they said that I'm a little meshuga.
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Believe it or not, that's the insinuation of the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix, the Arizona Democratic Party, the Arizona Republic, and countless blogosphere crackpots, some of whom have lumped Hayworth in with Malibu meshuga Mel Gibson and Gibson's tequila-fueled tirade against matzo-munchers worldwide.
Archive 2006-08-01 2006
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To their threats against the exploration of science, I say: just ignore the meshuga! buddha
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Local Jewish politicians, community leaders, and clergy condemned Cohn and told him to stay away, that he was a meshuga, “a nut.”
Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003
alguien commented on the word meshuga
This is a hilarious word.
March 27, 2007