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mishegass

mishegass 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

Origin of mishegass

Borrowed from Yiddish משוגעת (meshugas), from משוגע (meshuge, “crazy”), from Hebrew משוגע (meshugga`, “crazy”), from שׁוּגַּע (shugga‘, “be driven mad”), שִׁיגַּע (shigga‘, “drive mad”).

Questions about mishegass

What is mishegass the alternative spelling of?
Mishegass is the alternative spelling of mishegoss.

Words near mishegass in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mishegass (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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