I'm sure this is not how you spell these words, but it is what they "sound like." Just curious. I hear them a lot and I would like to know their meaning. Thanks
2006-09-19 07:00:57 · 11 answers · asked by adamsts54 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
meshuga / meshugge / meshugah / meshuggah (משוגען meşugn) : crazy (from Yiddish meshuge)
meshuggener : a crazy person (from Yiddish meshugener)
meshugass : nonsense (lit. "crazy talk")
Kvell means 'to be bursting with pride; boast; gloat', and is usually used with the connotation that one is delighted with the accomplishments of one's children. A couple of recent examples: "'My heart is totally bursting.' 'I know--I'm kvelling'" (the movie Clueless, 1995); "Give us a chance to kvell over you" (my mother, when I got annoyed with her for fussing over the publication of my first book, 1995).
Kvell is from the Yiddish word kveln 'to be delighted', related to German quellen 'to well up; gush'. Its first known appearance in English is in the late 1960s.
2006-09-19 07:11:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Meshuganah means crazy and to kvell is to be overcome with joy or pride.
My meshuganah mother-in-law thinks I am not fit for her Jewish prince of a son.
I am kvelling because my son the doctor has his own hospital.
2006-09-19 07:10:54 · answer #2 · answered by notyou311 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Meshuganuh is Yiddish for Crazy
Kvell is to beam with pride and pleasure
Check out this website for more
http://www.sbjf.org/sbjco/schmaltz/yiddish_phrases.htm
2006-09-19 07:13:20 · answer #3 · answered by Hannie S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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What do the Hebrew words meshuganuh and kvell mean?
I'm sure this is not how you spell these words, but it is what they "sound like." Just curious. I hear them a lot and I would like to know their meaning. Thanks
2015-08-19 10:24:59 · answer #4 · answered by Aristotle 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
meshuganuh means "crazy" but not in a technical/medical sense. Kind of like you would tell someone "I don't believe you just did that. You are meshuganuh."
I don't know what kvell is- I'll look it up and get back to you.
And I don't think that they are Hebrew words. They are "Yiddish" which came from Jewish people living in Germany, and combining elements of German language and Hebrew- Kind of like Spanish speaking people in USA sometimes speak "Spanglish."
2006-09-19 07:07:43 · answer #5 · answered by xymeline 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
meshuganuh means crazy, Kvell- bursting with pride or happiness.
2006-09-19 07:23:29 · answer #6 · answered by sindhumenonid 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
meshuganuh = ur crazy
kvell = feeling proud for or about something
2006-09-19 07:02:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First one is like the word for all non-jews, like Goyim(cattle). Kvell means I am a Rabbi and I will have sex with preteen girl, it means nothing of course.
Holy Talmud, Holy Torah send me to hell I'm a Jewish Whorah.
2006-09-19 07:04:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Meshuganah
2016-11-04 05:03:48 · answer #9 · answered by oreskovich 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am thinking you have the spelling wrong but search this site when you get the correct spelling for the meaning. Good luck!
2006-09-19 07:07:47 · answer #10 · answered by The_answer_person 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋