Ferschlugginer
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A Yiddishism that came into fandom, as well as American English, via Mad Magazine. It mostly means “crazy” or “stupid,” as in, “I can’t get the hang of that ferschlugginer hitchie.”
| From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959 |
| A Mad-word; "a sort of clean dirty word". From Yiddish "far-schlogner", which we may translate "all beat up".
from Fancyclopedia 2 Supplement ca. 1960: Alternatively Furschlugginer. A second possible derivation would consider it a portmanteau-wor from Ferschimmelt (moldy) and meschugginer (insane). |
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