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SHMEGEGGE

Dictionary entry overview: What does shmegegge mean?

• SHMEGEGGE (noun)
The noun SHMEGEGGE has 1 sense:

1. (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense

Familiarity information: SHMEGEGGE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SHMEGEGGE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

(Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

schmegegge; shmegegge

Hypernyms ("shmegegge" is a kind of...):

bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality (a message that seems to convey no meaning)

Domain category:

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)

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