Definitions
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- noun (Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity
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Examples
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Nothing will ever make them quit with this mishegaas except fatigue, and mockery, and a new conspiracy to chase.
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But the noted scholar Leo Rosten provides alternative spellings of "mishegoss" and "mishegaas."
Beasts of Burden: Long Bikes and Shiny Riders BikeSnobNYC 2010
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But as a lower-court judge, there's a limit to the mishegaas he can wreak.
Shnook & Shnook 2008
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Steiger plays him as a moody and sensitive loner burdened by the whole mishegaas of Russian history.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Steiger plays him as a moody and sensitive loner burdened by the whole mishegaas of Russian history.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Steiger plays him as a moody and sensitive loner burdened by the whole mishegaas of Russian history.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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No Mobius posts about the mishegaas at Isabella Freedman?
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Yes, it’s mishegaas, but if it brings people into the city to spend time there and to spend money there, then incorrect’s right - that’s what city hall is for.
fbharjo commented on the word mishegaas
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November 14, 2008
chelster commented on the word mishegaas
Also spelled mishegas, meshugaas, mishegoss.
April 12, 2011