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English
Etymology
From Yiddish משוגענער (meshugener).
Noun
mashugana (countable and uncountable, plural mashuganas)
- nonsense; silliness; craziness; garbage
- (derogatory) A person who is silly or crazy; a jackass.
- 1986. Allen Ginsberg, Bill Morgan. Kanreki: a tribute to Allen Ginsberg, Page 37
- I seemed to attract old flower children and new age holistic eastern mystic 'mashuganas' .
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