Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Informal Silly; crazy.
- adj. Informal Completely absorbed, infatuated, or excited: They were gaga over the rock group's new album.
- adj. Informal Senile; doddering.
Wiktionary
- adj. informal Senile.
- adj. informal Crazy.
- adj. informal Infatuated.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. mentally or physically infirm with age.
- adj. marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. mentally or physically infirm with age
- adj. intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
Etymologies
- French, old fool, gaga, of imitative origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“She also seems to have forgotten that since the dawn of time the word gaga has been one of the first discernible phrases to come from a baby's mouth.”
“Shop owner Matt O'Connor said he's prepared to fight: Since the dawn of time the word 'gaga' has been one of the first discernible phrases to come from a baby's mouth.”
The Washington Post: In other news: Lady Gaga threatens to sue over breast milk ice cream
“On Topsy, you can also filter out specific keywords to find, for example, posts that include the word "lady" but not the word "gaga.”
“July 21st, 2009 1: 08 pm ET this makes perfect sense, since lady gaga is fast becoming a cultural icon in the gay community.”
“Someone above mentioned that it was a gaga rip-off, but at least lady gaga is fun?”
“Ok to set this clear! lady gaga is an amature. you get it? while Christina Aguilera is a music legend it can open your eyes fellas.”
“i think lady gaga is a good addition. this was sanford and ensign may be able to carry on with their so called conservative family values ....”
“After quoting a hysterical (hysterical-gaga, that is, not hysterical-funny) rant from Secretary of State Condi Rice ( "who is known for her calm -- some might say somnambulent -- rhetoric," but who "waxes Hallmark when it comes to Scoot"), she wrote (boldface emphasis added):”
“As an aside, even the word verification agrees that Wetherspoons must be crazy: the word verification on screen right now is "gaga"!”
JD Wetherspoon(The John Wallace Linton) - An open to Tim Martin head of JD Wetherspoon.
“Words like 'Research and Development' make me go 'gaga'.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gaga’.
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Noteworthy Words
Here I have in mind a list of words that could be spelled with only the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, and G--and thus could also be played as a tune on the piano.
face, ace, bag, cage, bad, fad, fade, fee, gee, beg, fed, deaf and 98 more...
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Of Imitative Origin
Words formed in imitation of the sound of the things they signify.
bawl, biff, blizzard, blob, blooper, bob, boff, bomb, bonkers, boo, borborygmus, brouhaha and 148 more...
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Reduples
Go for it, brothers and sisters! I personally have been suffering long for lack of an open reduplicatives list
happy clappy, bribble-brabble, diddle-daddle, hugger-mugger, kikiriki, Bora-Bora, mahi-mahi, jingle-jangle, knick-knack paddy..., chit-chat, bon-bon, clapperclaw and 292 more...
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double-take
the same word twice with two different meanings for each word and reduplications
sweet sweet, number number, side side, sing sing, by by, sitting sitting, light light, so so, rare rare, medium medium, card card, word word and 41 more...
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Chained Bear's Favorite Words
peruvian, sparky, poop, etymological, fuck, whatnot, pulchritude, nosh, tetched, quotidian, squalid, trajectory and 388 more...
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Lookups on Net
rip-off, sclerosis, clip, envisagement, gaga, up to scratch, egregious
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Opethead's list
All Words
deplore, immense, ominouse, dilapidated, dunghill, admonitary, procuring, legilimens, mediocre, implicitly, beseechingly, imperiously and 170 more...
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pop ups
erstwhile, allegiance, sacked, reinstate, vengeance, affluent, sedative, maverick, caricatives, abandoned, faux pas, ambience and 245 more...
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Nullologue
nullologue, vaudeville, debauchery, debauched, libertine, nothing, dhadak, tz pf, nothingology, goodbyeology, sharmuta, manifesto and 866 more...
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pamelad's Words
lugubrious, antediluvian, decrepitude, anomaly, regurgitate, apoplexy, prolix, incapacitate, discontinuity, bellicose, inclement, frangible and 158 more...
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Isograms
Words with each letter repeated the same number of times. The pattern of repetition is tagged: 1212, 1221, 121122, 122121, 121233, 122133, 123123, 123132, 123213, 123231, 123312, 123321, 12123434, ...
deeded, sestettes, geggee, appeases, caucasus, isis, cancan, intestines, mesosome, palpal, valval, mama and 154 more...
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Déjà wordie?
pom-pom, mama, gaga, muumuu, cancan, dodo, aye-aye, kaka, dada, boo-boo, coco, lulu and 18 more...
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"Crazy" and its synonyms
crazy, mad, batty, bonkers, barmy, nuts, nutty, nutter, nutcase, insane, maniac, lunatic and 6 more...
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Least Favorites
choicest, sassafras, vomit, amorous, testes, agrarian, egregious, lactate, pus, crotchety, cul-de-sac, precipice and 74 more...
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GRE G
Gibe, Gamut, Geniality, Garrulous, Grimace, gussy, gnomic, garbled, gnash, gaga, ghoulish, glum and 16 more...
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monovocalic trysyllable
There must be some natural English word that contains the same vowel three times. 'English' excludes Bopomofo and Rin Tin Tin; 'natural' excludes contrived things like highlight-like, unhumdrum. An...
abdabs, alate, aye-aye, backpack, bedstead, bow-wow, civic, deadhead, dojo, earthwork, earthworm, forecourt and 43 more...
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