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Definition: Gaga |
GagaAdjective1. Mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was doddering and frail". 2. Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness; "she was crazy about him"; "gaga over the rock group's new album"; "he was infatuated with her". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: GagaSynonyms: crazy (adj), doddering (adj), doddery (adj), dotty (adj), enamored (adj), in love (adj), infatuated (adj), senile (adj), smitten (adj), soft on(p) (adj), taken with(p) (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Gaga |
| Non-English Usage: "Gaga" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (gaga, senile), Turkish (beak, bill, nib, rostrate, rostrum, trap). |
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| "Gaga" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gaga" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "gaga": go gaga ♦ go gaga over ♦ go gaga over smth.. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gaga | 19 |
gaga radio | 7 |
communication gaga | 4 |
chihuahua gaga | 3 |
gaga queen radio | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gaga"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | budalla (anserine, anserous, asinine, ass, blunderhead, booby, brainless, cabbage-head, chuckle-head, clod, cloddish, clod-poll, cockeyed, daft, dense, Dick, dim witted, dimwit, dumb, dumbbell, fathead, fool, gaby, goof, goofy, goon, Goosey, gowk, half wit, idiot, idle-headed, imbecile, jobbernowl, jolterhead, josser, juggins, loon, mindless, moke, muff, mutton head, mutton-headed, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nut, owl, pin head, pumpkin-head, sheep's head, silly, slow witted, softhead, soft-headed, softy, spoony, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, witless). (various references) | |
Arabic | ساذج (artless, credulous, drip, gimp, green, guileless, gullible, honest, ingenuous, innocent, mug, naive, ninny, oafish, pastoral, patsy, platitudinous, primitive, provincial, silly, simple, unsophisticated, untutored, unworldly), أبله (asinine, ass, brainless, coot, cuckoo, daw, dense, dim witted, dullard, fatuous, feeble minded, gawky, goofy, half-witted, idiotic, imbecile, lemon, mad, patsy, screwed, sheepish, silly, sod, sodden, softy, soppy, stick in the mud, stupid, vacant, vacuous, wood-headed). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | изкуфял (addle-brained, doddering, doddery, doited, doting, senile). (various references) | |
Czech | senilní (senile). (various references) | |
Farsi | شیفته (Amorous, Captive, Fond, Mad), دیوانه (Bedlam, Berserk, Crazy, Cuckoo, Demented, Fanatic, Fey, Harebrained, Insane, Loco, Loony, Lunatic, Mad, Madbrained, Madcap, Manic, Natural, Nut, Nutty, Psychotic), دلفریفته . (various references) | |
French | gaga, servant, cinglé. (various references) | |
German | verkalkt (calcifies), plempem, meschugge (barmy, bonkers, meshuga, meshugge, nuts). (various references) | |
Greek | ξεμωραμένοσ (dotard). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מטומטם (bird brained, dense, dopey, dullard, goon, half wit, halfwitted, imbecile, lame brain, lout, muddleheaded, oafish, obtuse, sot, stupid, thickheaded, woodenheaded). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vén hülye, szenilis (doddering, doited, doting, senile). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pandir (silly, stupid), lucu (arch, burlesque, comic, funny, jocular). (various references) | |
Italian | gaga, rimbambito, tocco (chunk, feel, piece, streak, stroke, Toque, touch, touched). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 喃語 (baby babble, goo-goo, lover's whispers, sweet nothings, whispered intimacies). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | な"" (baby babble, difficult word, goo-goo, lover's whispers, sweet nothings, whispered intimacies). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agagay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gagá, decrépito (crazy, decayed, dilapidated, lapsed, ramshackle, rickety). (various references) | |
Russian | глупый (anserine, apish, asinine, barmy, beef-witted, blockish, bovine, brain dead, brainless, cloddish, daft, dense, doddery, drippy, fatuous, fat-witted, featherbrain, featherbrained, feather-brained, foolish, goofy, harebrained, idle-headed, inane, inept, mindless, mutton-headed, nitwitted, nonsensical, oafish, sappy, silly, simple-minded, soft-headed, spoony, stupid, thickskulled, thick-skulled, thick-witted, timber-headed, unwise, wooden-headed). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | šašav (cracked, crackers, crazy, daft, goofy, loony). (various references) | |
Spanish | gagá (old dodderer), lelo (cuckoo, ninny, ninny-hammer), chocho (dodderer, doddering, doting). (various references) | |
Swedish | senil (senile), gaggig. (various references) | |
Thai | บ้า ((as) mad as a hatter, cockeyed, gonzo, kooky, loco, loonie, loony, lunatic, madden, maddening, maddeningly, madding, meshuga, meshugah, radge, sedate), งุนงง (bewilder). (various references) | |
Turkish | moruk (baggage, dotard, gaffer, geezer, old bag, pops), deli (Batty, bedlamite, bonkers, crackers, cracky, crazy, daft, delirious, dement, demented, demon, demoniac, demoniacal, dippy, distracted, distraught, insane, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, mad about, madman, madwoman, meshuggah, not all there, nutcase, nuts, nutty, off one's onion, out of one's mind, out of one's senses, phrenetic, possessed, potty, touched), bunak (demented, doddering, doddery, dotard, in second childhood, senile), aptal (bird brained, birdbrain, booby, cretin, cuckoo, daft, Dotty, drag, dumb, dumb bell, dummy, dunce, fathead, fat-head, fat-headed, fatuous, feeble minded, fool, foolish, goofy, gormless, half wit, half-witted, harebrained, idiot, idiotic, inane, innocent, lummox, oafish, silly, simp, softhead, softy, stupid, thickheaded, tomfool, twerp, twit). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | очманілий (besotted, slaphappy, woozy), здурілий (cuckoo, muzzy, silly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| French | 1500-Modern | gaga. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gaga": gagaku, gagakus. (additional references) | |
Words containing "gaga": megagamete, megagametes, megagametophyte, megagametophytes. (additional references) | |
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"Gaga" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agag, agga, agkagat, Cgegae, Daga, Dagaa, gaaah, gabal, gada, gadgi, gafa, G'ag, gagal, Gagan, Gagas, gagey, gagg, gaggan, Gagik, Gago, gagol, gahge, Gaige, gama, gana, gangi, gara, Garah, Gargi, gasa, gata, gava, gawa, gaya, gaza, Gbago, Gbargna, Gbgsa, geage, Geba, geega, gega, Gegu, geva, geza, gg, Gga, Ggat, Gge, ggg, ghg, Gica, giga, gigas, gige, Gigha, gigi, Ginga, gioa, Girga, glagol, gnaa, goage, goga, gogal, gogo, gogu, googa, guag, guagara, guggi, Guggum, Guigma, gunga, gyage, Gygaia, haga, igage, jaga, naga, ngage, Nganga, taga, Vaga, zaga. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-g" | |
-1 letter: aga, gag. | |
-2 letters: aa, ag. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-g-g" | |
+1 letter: dagga. | |
+2 letters: daggas, gagaku, gagman, galago, garage, gasbag, gavage, quagga, ragbag, ragtag, saggar, tagrag. | |
+3 letters: aggadic, aggrade, anagoge, anagogy, apagoge, baggage, gagakus, galagos, ganglia, gangway, garaged, garages, garbage, gasbags, gavages, graylag, haggada, haggard, hangtag, jaggary, laggard, quaggas, ragbags, ragtags, saggard, saggars, tagrags. | |
+4 letters: aggraded, aggrades, agiotage, anagoges, anagogic, apagoges, apagogic, baggages, braggart, damaging, galangal, gangland, ganglial, gangliar, gangways, garaging, garbages, garganey, gigawatt, graftage, graylags, haggadah, haggadas, haggadic, haggadot, haggards, hangtags, laggards, lallygag, langrage, language, managing, paragoge, ravaging, saggards, saggared, savaging, staggard, staggart, tagalong, wagonage. | |
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