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語源 1

Borrowed from French gaga.

形容詞

gaga (comparative more gaga, superlative most gaga) (informal)

1. Mentally senile.

   The elderly patients in the hospital were going gaga.

2. Crazy.

   You might go gaga if you stare at this screen too long.

   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, Viking, page ??:

     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. Infatuated.

   The girls were going gaga over the handsome new boy who joined the class.

使用する際の注意点

• As demonstrated in the example sentences above, gaga is often preceded by the verb go.

派生語

派生した語

• → Translingual: Gaga

語源 2

名詞

gaga (uncountable)

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