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: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=meshuga -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. Sponsors' Messages: Which great writer was a pee drinker? Find out in "Secret Lives of Great Authors" Use promocode WORDADAY for 25% off entire order http://quirkbooks.com Subscribe to http://delanceyplace.com -- a carefully selected non-fiction book Excerpt free to your email each day. It's the thinking person's daily quotation. ............................................................................ 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) Wordsmith Chat: Join us in a chat with Nicholas Ostler, chairman of Foundation for Endangered Languages. Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at noon Pacific (GMT -7). Details at http://wordsmith.org/chat Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/meshuga.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/meshuga.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/meshuga.html This message was sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
