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To: relictele

Furshlugginer Bube mit wilden Augen.


13 posted on 11/14/2019 7:01:51 AM PST by x
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To: x

“Furshlugginer”

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=furshlugginer

An aracane adjective used as an expletive in the earliest issues of Mad magazine (e.g. 1950’s) - comparable to “garshdarned” (see examples). However, maybe it’s true that it was also used to mean ‘asshat’ later on, as claimed above.) Possibly a parody of some German or Yiddish word, I suspect. Correct spelling may actually be ‘furshluggenner’.


16 posted on 11/14/2019 7:15:54 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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