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Meshuggaas: Yiddish for crazy ... pronunciation
Making allowances for the NY accent:
Mish - uh - GOSS
(that's "uh" as in "schwa" and "goss" as in "gospel")
and it means more craziness-the-noun than crazy-the-adjective
The root is Hebrew, interestingly enough, not German.
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