Mashugana
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 nonsense; silliness; craziness; garbage countable, uncountable
- 2 A person who is silly or crazy; a jackass. countable, derogatory, uncountable
"1986. Allen Ginsberg, Bill Morgan. Kanreki: a tribute to Allen Ginsberg, Page 37http://books.google.com/books?id=wWmuAAAAIAAJ&q=Mashuganas&dq=Mashuganas&lr=&ei=oivOSp68OYi0kATv3fHBBQ I seemed to attract old flower children and new age holistic eastern mystic 'mashuganas' ."
Example
More examples"1986. Allen Ginsberg, Bill Morgan. Kanreki: a tribute to Allen Ginsberg, Page 37http://books.google.com/books?id=wWmuAAAAIAAJ&q=Mashuganas&dq=Mashuganas&lr=&ei=oivOSp68OYi0kATv3fHBBQ I seemed to attract old flower children and new age holistic eastern mystic 'mashuganas' ."
Etymology
From Yiddish משוגענער (meshugener).
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