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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--meshuga This week's theme: Words from Yiddish. meshuga or meshugga (muh-SHOOG-uh) adjective Crazy; stupid. [From Yiddish meshuge, from Hebrew meshugga.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Plenty of hip-hoppers want to be considered insane, but only Paul Barman wants to be known as meshuga." David Segal; The Weirder, the Better; The Washington Post; Jun 25, 2000. X-Bonus Here lies, extinguished in his prime, / a victim of modernity: / but yesterday he hadn't time--- / and now he has eternity. -Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)

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