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meshugge

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Adj.1.meshugge - senselessmeshugge - senseless; crazy                    
meshuga, meshugga, meshuggeneh, meshuggener
Yiddish - a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script
impractical - not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters; "refloating the ship proved impractical because of the expense"; "he is intelligent but too impractical for commercial work"; "an impractical solution"
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meshugge
adj (US sl) → meschugge (inf)
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But the wordplay - from the liner notes by Meshugge Knight to the virtues of a Lincoln Town Car (``big black sofa on four wheels'') to the chant that underpins ``Double Dutch Lunch'' (``throw your hams in the air like you just don't care'') - celebrates the quirky nuances of both cultures without trashing either.
SOUND CHECK by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
and bist meshugge to cuisine such as blintzes and borsht to items of ritual, such as havdallah or kharoses.
Call It Sleep: Jewish, American, modernist, classic by Wirth-Nesher, Hana / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
 
 
 
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