The other day I happened to use this word chatting with +Kay Hill, and she rightfully asked me what the heck I was talking about. My recollections of the word (defined under the link below) were from early Marvel comics — Ben Grimm would talk about "Yeah, that's right, leave me to take on the whole furshlugginer robot army," or the credits box would note "Artie Simek lettered the whole furshlugginer thing," etc.
Upon consideration, I decide (rightly) that it was a Yiddish term (though I had the Anglicization wrong), but I was surprised to find out that it was actually popularized by the old Mad magazine crowd (along with the ever-lovin' Potrzebie [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrzebie]).
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furshlugginer – Wiktionary
English[edit]. Etymology[edit]. From the Yiddish, one of several words Anglicized and popularized by the original writers of MAD Magazine. The word comes from shlogn (“to hit”) with the prefix far- which often indicates the one so described is taking on the quality named.
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