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n. - (Yiddish) a crazy fool adj. - Senseless.

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Usage examples (10)
  • The meshuggener from our street who used to bully you.
  • Tsedraiter Ike—himself named after a weakness of the brain that was nearly but not quite the same as that suffered by a meshuggener.
  • She said, “This Sandy sounds like a meshuggener (Yiddish for a crazy person).
  • I told you not to read that Dostoyevsky and that meshuggener Kafka when you were fifteen. "
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