"Kurt Ullman" wrote in message

stuff snipped

everything goes all fershugina, the zip drive for minor melt downs on
current projects, and the off-site in case of fire, flood, earthquake or
pestilence. I am a belt and suspenders kind of guy (grin).

Since Google shows only 13 hits for "fershugina" and at least four of them
are yours, I have to conclude that it's not a real word. I've been
searching through the Yiddish dictionary for a while now with no hits:

http://www.yiddishdictionaryonline.com/

Perhaps you're thinking of

meshugener meh?shoog'?en?er / meh?shig'?en?er (m.)
madman, crazy person, lunatic

There's another list ( http://thomer.com/yiddish/) that gives us:

Farshlugginer: Refers to a mixed-up or shaken item. Generally indicates
something of little or dubious value.

That sounds a little closer to the mark.

Of course, that second list says:

Mashugga: Crazy

while the first list decries that Yiddish has no double letters (apparently
not true in multiple dimensions).

Actually, your spelling is Italish or Yidian, a combination of Yiddish and
Italian found mostly in neighborhoods like Boro Park and Bay Ridge in
Brooklyn where Jews and Italians lived side-by-side for decades.

Even the Urban Dictionary didn't have anything for "fershugina" - this was
as close as it got:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...erm=fershizzle

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Bobby G.