Saturday, November 19, 2016

Today's word - edited

meshuggener /muh-SHUG-uh-ner/ - a foolish or crazy person
Hey, if the shoe fits, I suppose I should wear it. I think I may have heard this word in my youth; he may have denied vociferously after his conversion - that is, from well before I was ever born - but my grandfather was Jewish.
I meant to mention this when I first posted this: just as the word "niggardly," despite its similar sound, has nothing to do with race, this word has nothing to do with the Great Lakes State.

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