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mishegaas

mishegaas is the alternative spelling 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 mishegaas

What is mishegaas the alternative spelling of?
Mishegaas is the alternative spelling of mishegoss.

Words near mishegaas in the dictionary

  1. mishears
  2. misheed
  3. misheeded
  4. misheeding
  5. misheeds
  6. mishegaas
  7. mishegas
  8. mishegass
  9. mishegos
  10. mishegoss
  11. misheld

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mishegaas (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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