meshugge
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9.9
Being very foolish or behaving in a crazy way
- adjective
- /məˈʃʊɡə/
- Slang
:
absurdo
- The movie had a meshugge storyline that made no sense at all.
Examples
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Are you meshugge?
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His meshugge behavior at the party left everyone confused.
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She came up with a meshugge plan that nobody could understand.
Synonyms
1
9.9
Acting in a very strange and not sensible way
is the same sense but may be the simpler spoken form
9.9
Acting very silly and not thinking clearly
has identical meaning but differs only in form or spelling
9.9
Behaving in a way that seems crazy or foolish
shares this sense while varying only in form or spelling
9.9
Very silly or clearly crazy
expresses the same idea but with less extreme emphasis
Antonyms
How Crazy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Meshugge comes from Yiddish and before that from Hebrew, where the similar word meshuga meant 'crazy'. A helpful way to remember it is to picture someone doing a wild, silly thing, because calling an idea or action meshugge today means it is senseless or foolish.