gaga

adjectifnomattesté dans les dialogues

//ˈɡɑːɡɑː//
//ˈɡɑːɡə//

Mentally senile.

adjectif

1
familierMentally senile.
The elderly patients in the hospital were going gaga.
2
familierCrazy.
You might go gaga if you stare at this screen too long.
'They're just making it look as if all their big shots were gaga. God knows how they're going to unscramble the whole business.'
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
familierInfatuated.
The girls were going gaga over the handsome new boy who joined the class.

Étymologie

Borrowed from French gaga.

nom

1
Variante de ga-gaAlternative form of ga-ga (“game resembling dodgeball”).

Formes

comparatif: more gaga
superlatif: most gaga

Gaby · A female given name from French.gadget · Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be…gag · A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth…

gaga · Mentally senile.

gage · To bind (someone) by pledge or security; to engage.Gage · A surname originating as an occupation.gagging · A gag motion or reflex.

Les pages voisines — L'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.