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Gaga

Definition: Gaga

Gaga

Adjective

1. 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: Gaga

Synonyms: 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)

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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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Commercial Usage: Gaga

DomainTitle

Books

  • Gaga (reference)

  • The Gaga Years: The Rise and Fall of the Money Game, 1981-1991 (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Gaga

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%10111,207

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Gaga

Expressions using "gaga": go gaga go gaga over go gaga over smth.. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Gaga

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: Gaga

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.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Gaga

LanguagePeriodTranslations
French1500-Modern

gaga. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Gaga

Derivations

Words beginning with "gaga": gagaku, gagakus. (additional references)

Words containing "gaga": megagamete, megagametes, megagametophyte, megagametophytes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Anagrams: Gaga

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Translations: Ancient
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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