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SCHMEGEGGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does schmegegge mean? 

SCHMEGEGGE (noun)
  The noun SCHMEGEGGE has 1 sense:

1. (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsenseplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SCHMEGEGGE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

schmegegge; shmegegge

Hypernyms ("schmegegge" 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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