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meshugas

meshugas is the alternative form of mishegoss.

Meaning of mishegoss

Noun

mishegoss (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Madness; silliness.
    • On the contrary, the Michigander’s mishegoss is driven by my choice of the on-guard anticipate when he thinks I should have used the more general, all-purpose verb expect.2007 February 11, William Safire, “Culpa for Mayor”, in New York Times

Questions about meshugas

What is meshugas the alternative form of?
Meshugas is the alternative form of mishegoss.

Words near meshugas in the dictionary

  1. meshugaas
  2. meshugah
  3. meshuganah
  4. meshuganahs
  5. meshuganon
  6. meshugas
  7. meshugatron
  8. meshugenah
  9. meshugenahs
  10. meshugeneh
  11. meshugenehs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meshugas (page history and authors); mishegoss (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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