The story
- Hebrew · derived fromמְשׁוּגָּע“crazy”
- Yiddish · borrowed fromמשוגע“crazy”
- English todaymeshugge
From Yiddish משוגע (meshuge, “crazy”), from Hebrew מְשׁוּגָּע (m'shugá, “crazy”), a form of שׁוּגַּע (shugá, “be driven mad”) and שִׁיגַּע (shigá, “drive mad”). First came into use in English around 1880.
Words from the same roots
Yiddishמשוגע all →
meshuganon
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.