different between gaga vs gags

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???????/

Etymology 1

From French gaga

Adjective

gaga (comparative more gaga, superlative most gaga)

1. (informal) Mentally 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.

   • 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

Etymology 2

Noun

gaga (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of ga-ga (“game resembling dodgeball”)

Balinese

Romanization

gaga

1. Romanization of ??
2. Romanization of ????

Barngarla

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?a/

Noun

gaga

1. head

References

• Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad (2019). Barngarlidhi Manoo (Speaking Barngarla Together) (Barngarla Alphabet & Picture Book). p.50-56.
  Part 1 Part 2
• Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad and Clamor Wilhelm Schürmann (2018). Online Barngarla Dictionary.
• Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad (2016). Barngarla Aboriginal Language Dictionary App.
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.regenr8.dictionary.barngarla
  https://apps.apple.com/au/app/barngarla/id1424856161

French

Etymology

Reduplication of the base of gâteux (“senile”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.?a/

Adjective

gaga (plural gagas)

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

Synonyms

senile

• fou
• foufou
• gâteux
• neuneu
• zinzin

crazy

• fou
• foufou
• neuneu
• zinzin

Further reading

• “gaga” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Ga

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?a/

Noun

gaga (plural gagai)

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

See also

• tsatsu
• tsatsutsuru
• gbense

Gamilaraay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?a/

Noun

gaga

1. wine

References

• (2017) Giacon J Gamilaraay-Yuwaalaraay Dictionary Supplement

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??a?a]
• Hyphenation: ga?ga

Adjective

gaga (not comparable)

1. (predicative, colloquial) gaga

Further reading

• “gaga” in Duden online

Japanese

Romanization

gaga

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Lindu

Adverb

gaga

1. very

Tagalog

Etymology

• From gago

Adjective

gaga

1. (vulgar) (feminine) an idiot, asshole

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ?????.

Noun

gaga (definite accusative gagay?, plural gagalar)

1. bill, beak

Declension

Derived terms

• gagalamak

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) , “????”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1334

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ?z/
• Rhymes: -æ?z

Noun

gags

1. plural of gag

Verb

gags

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gag

Spanish

Noun

gags

1. plural of gag