meshuggener

Meanings

adjectivemeshuggener (comparative more meshuggener, superlative most meshuggener)

comparative more meshuggener · superlative most meshuggener · alternative meshugenah · alternative meshuganah · alternative meshugener · alternative meshugganer · alternative meshuggeneh · alternative mashuganuh

nounmeshuggener (plural meshuggeners)

plural meshuggeners · alternative meshugenah · alternative meshuganah · alternative meshugener · alternative meshugganer · alternative meshuggeneh · alternative mashuganuh

A madman; a crazy person, a nutter.
‘Enough,’ as Tsedraiter Ike put it, ‘with giving satisfaction to the anti-Semites. Just lock the meshuggener away.’
2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage, published 2007, page 59

adjectivesenseless; crazy

noun(Yiddish) a crazy fool

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From Yiddish משוגענער (meshugener, “lunatic”, noun). Compare Yiddish משוגע (meshuge, “crazy”).

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