meshuggener

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A madman; a crazy person, a nutter

Enough,’ as Tsedraiter Ike put it, ‘with giving satisfaction to the anti-Semites. Just lock the meshuggener away.’.

Crazy, insane
{i} (Yiddish) crazy fool; person who is totally unreasonable
meshuggener

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    [ -'shu-g&-n&r ] (noun.) 1900. From Yiddish משוגענע (meshugene) adj., משוגענער (meshugener, “lunatic”), n. Compare משוגע (meshuge, “crazy”).
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