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SHMEGEGGE
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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
Sense 1
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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