gaga

See also: ga-ga

English

Adjective

gaga (comparative more gaga, superlative most gaga)

1. (informal) Senile.

   The elderly patients in the hospital were going gaga.

2. (informal) Crazy.

   You might go gaga if you stare at this screen too long.

   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, Viking, page ??:

     Should he lose it once and for all, he and Kathleen would need lots of money. Also, he had said to me, you could be gaga in a tenured chair at Princeton, and would anybody notice?

3. (informal) Infatuated.

   The girls were going gaga over the handsome new boy who joined the class.

Usage notes

• As demonstrated in the example sentences above, gaga is often preceded by the verb go.

Translations

senile

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: pöpi (fi), vanhuudenhöperö (fi)

• French: gaga (fr), neuneu (fr), zinzin (fr)
• Latin: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: gc-gc

crazy

• Catalan: boig m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: pöpi (fi)

• French: gaga (fr), neuneu (fr), zinzin (fr)
• German: verrückt (de), bekloppt (de)
• Latin: insanus m
• Spanish: loco (es) m

infatuated

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: hulluna

• French: gaga (fr)
• Latin: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: enamorado (es)

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French

Adjective

gaga

1. (informal) gaga (senile)
2. (informal) gaga (crazy)
3. (informal) gaga (infatuated)

Synonyms

senile

• fou
• foufou
• gâteux
• neuneu
• zinzin

crazy

• fou
• foufou
• neuneu
• zinzin

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Ga

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɡa/

Noun

gaga (plural gagai)

1. any ant with large mandibles, such as a soldier ant or driver ant

See also

• tsatsu
• tsatsutsuru
• gbense

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Turkish

gagalar

Etymology

• From Proto-Turkic

Noun

gaga (definite accusative gagayı, plural gagalar)

1. bill, beak

Declension

declension of gaga

	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	gaga	gagalar
definite accusative (belirtme)	gagayı	gagaları
dative (yönelme)	gagaya	gagalara
locative (bulunma)	gagada	gagalarda
ablative (çıkma)	gagadan	gagalardan
genitive (tamlayan)	gaganın	gagaların

Derived terms

• gagalamak