Meaning & use
Meshuggener
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An informal term, borrowed from Yiddish, for a foolish, crazy, or eccentric person.
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Stop acting like a meshuggener and just tell me what really happened.
His uncle was a lovable meshuggener who told the same joke at every family dinner.
A note on using this word
Borrowed from Yiddish 'meshugener' (rooted in 'meshuge', meaning crazy), it is used informally in American English, especially in Jewish-influenced speech.
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