meshugaas
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meshugaas — n. (Yiddish) foolish or crazy activity; craziness … English contemporary dictionary
meshugaas — me·shu·gaas … English syllables
meshugaas — noun (Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity • Syn: ↑mishegaas, ↑mishegoss • Topics: ↑Yiddish • Hypernyms: ↑folly, ↑foolery, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
List of English words of Yiddish origin — For Yiddish words used by English speaking Jews (that are not necessarily English), see Yiddish words used by English speaking Jews. This is a list of English words of Yiddish origin, many of which have entered the English language by way of… … Wikipedia
mishegaas — noun (Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity • Syn: ↑meshugaas, ↑mishegoss • Topics: ↑Yiddish • Hypernyms: ↑folly, ↑foolery, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
šgʿ — To rage, be(come) mad. meshuga, meshugaas, from Hebrew məšuggaʿ, mad, participle of šuggaʿ, to be(come) mad. * * * … Universalium
mishegaas — /mish i gahs /, n. meshugaas. * * * … Universalium
Yiddish words used by English-speaking Jews — Yiddish words may be used in a primarily English language context. An English sentence that uses these words sometimes is said to be in Yinglish, however the primary meaning of Yinglish is an anglicism used in Yiddish. This secondary sense of the … Wikipedia
balderdash — n nonsense, moonshine, gobbledegook; humbug, bunkum or buncombe, Sl. bunk, U.S. Sl. blah; flummery, Inf. hokum, Sl. applesauce, Sl. eyewash; rubbish, SL tripe, Dial. culch, refuse, chaff, trash, Inf. truck, trumpery; tommyrot, Inf. rot, Sl.… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
drivel — v 1. drool, drip saliva, slaver, slobber, slabber; sputter, splutter; snivel, sniffle. 2. babble, gibber, Sl. gibber jabber, jargon; twaddle, Brit. twattle, blather, blether, Inf. blither, drool; talk nonsense, Inf. talk through one s hat; ramble … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
