Fun with words...................

The previous post contained the word narrishkeit.  A middling student, I don't claim to have the greatest vocabulary, and so, I often consult the desk-side Webster's New World Collegiate Dictionary -which doesn't necessarily have the greatest vocabulary either.  Neither of us knew the word, although the context of the original quote gave hint to the meaning.  Still, the question lingered.  The Great Oracle Google was consulted -hmmm, appears to be Yiddish.  No definition available, although Wordlist.com provided this handy and wondrous list of synonyms:


absurdness, act of folly, aimlessness, amphigory, anticness,
babble, babblement, balderdash, bibble-babble, bizarreness,
bizarrerie, blabber, blather, blunder, bombast, bootlessness, 
claptrap, craziness, curiousness, daftness, deformity,
dottiness, double-talk, drivel, drollery, drollness, drool, 
dumb trick, eccentricity, emptiness, error, fallacy, 
fantasticality,fantasticalness, fatuity, fecklessness, fiddle-
faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, folderol, folly, foolishness,
freakishness,fruitlessness, fudge, funniness, fustian, futility, 
gabble, galimatias, gammon, gibber, gibberish, gibble-
gabble,gobbledygook, grotesqueness, grotesquerie, hilarity, 
hocus-pocus, hollowness, hopelessness,humbug, humorous-
ness,illogicality, impossibility, impossible, impossibleness, 
impotence, imprudence, inanity, inconceivability, incongruity,
indiscretion, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficacy, 
insanity, irrationality, jabber, jargon, laughability, ludicrous-
ness,malformation, meaninglessness, monstrosity, 
monstrousness, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, no 
chance, nonsense,nonsensicality, nugacity, nuttiness, 
oddity, otiosity, outlandishness, outrageousness, oxymoron, 
pack of nonsense,palaver, paradox, peculiarity, pointless-
ness, prate, prattle, preposterousness, pricelessness, 
profitlessness, purposelessness, quaintness, queerness, 
quizzicalness, rant, rat race, richness, ridiculousness, 
rigamarole, rigmarole,rodomontade, rubbish, self-
contradiction, senselessness, silliness, singularity, 
skimble-skamble, sottise, strangeness,stuff and nonsense, 
stultiloquence, stupid thing, stupidity, teratism, the absurd,
the funny side, the impossible, trash,triviality, trumpery, 
twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, unimaginability, 
unproductiveness, unprofitability,unprofitableness, 
unreasonableness, unthinkability, unwise step, valueless-
ness, vanity, vaporing, vicious circle, waffling,weirdness, 
what cannot be, what cannot happen, whimsicalness, 
wildness, witlessness, wittiness, worthlessness