gogo

See also: gogó, go-go, and à gogo

English

WOTD – 8 March 2016

Etymology 1

Noun

gogo (plural gogos)

1. A girl’s elasticated hair band.

Synonyms

• scrunchie, scrunchy

Etymology 2

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Zulu ugogo.

Noun

gogo (plural gogos)

1. (South Africa) Grandmother; elderly woman.
   • 2009, Debra Liebenow Daly, The Kingdom of Roses and Thorns, page 112:

     On the weekdays she and Bawinde worked for the South Africans, but as the weekend approached Elizabeth was anxious to get home to see if James had come to visit his gogo in the village.

Anagrams

• GOOG, goog

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Basque

Noun

gogo

1. mind

See also

• adimen
• buru
• sen

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Chichewa

Etymology

Likely from a Nguni language; compare Zulu ugogo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡó.ɡo/, /ˈɡo.ɡo/

Noun

or 1a class ?

1. grandparent (grandfather or grandmother)

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French

Etymology

Name of a character in Frédérick Lemaître’s play “Robert Macaire”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔ.ɡo/

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Noun

gogo m (plural gogos)

1. dupe

Further reading

• “gogo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Japanese

Romanization

gogo

1. Rōmaji transcription of ごご

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Samoan

Noun

gogo

1. tern; noddy

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Swazi

Etymology

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Noun

gógo class 1a (plural bógógo class 2a)

1. grandmother

Inflection

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