m7chchech محشّش
Moroccan Darija · adjective
“m7chchech” (محشّش) is an adjective in Moroccan Darija meaning high on hashish, stoned.
Meanings
- high on hashish, stoned
- spaced out, dazed
Usage
M7chchech describes someone who has smoked hashish (l7chicha) and feels its effects. The word is colloquial and common among young people. It does not refer to drunkenness from alcohol, which is sakran. By extension and jokingly, it is used for someone who says absurd things or seems out of it, for example "nta m7chchech?": "have you been smoking or what?". The feminine is m7chchcha and the plural is m7chchchin. The corresponding verb is 7chchech, "to smoke hashish". It is best avoided in a formal context or in front of elders.
Example
شنو كتقول؟ واش نتا محشّش؟
chno katgoul? wach nta m7chchech?
“What are you talking about? Are you stoned or what?”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “m7chchech” but also “m7chech”, “m7achech”, “mhachech” and “m7cheche”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 7 is ha (ح), a breathy h from the throat.
Type “m7chchech” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “stoned (on cannabis)”; “spaced out, talking nonsense”: m7ashesh in Tunisian.