The story
- Yiddish · borrowed fromמשוגע“crazy”
- English todaymeshuganon
From meshugge + -on, from Yiddish משוגע (meshuge, “crazy”). Coined by Hungarian-American physicist Edward Teller in 1989 during a Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)-National Science Foundation (NSF) workshop.
Words from the same roots
Yiddishמשוגע all →
meshugge
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.