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ga-ga

ga-ga is the alternative spelling of gaga.

Meaning of gaga

Adjective

gaga (comparative more gaga, superlative most gaga)

  1. (informal) Mentally senile.
    • The elderly patients in the hospital were going gaga.
  2. (informal) Crazy.
    • You might go gaga if you stare at this screen too long.
  3. (informal) Infatuated.
    • The girls were going gaga over the handsome new boy who joined the class.

Noun

ga-ga (uncountable)

  1. A variant of dodgeball played inside a fenced area, usually a hexagon or octagon.

Interjection

  1. (onomatopoeic) The noise of a baby trying to imitate speech.

Forms of ga-ga

comparativemore ga-ga
superlativemost ga-ga

Origin of ga-ga

From Hebrew גע־גע, reduplicated form of Hebrew גע (“touch”).

Words formed from ga-ga

Questions about ga-ga

What does ga-ga mean?
Ga-ga means a variant of dodgeball played inside a fenced area, usually a hexagon or octagon.
What is ga-ga the alternative spelling of?
Ga-ga is the alternative spelling of gaga.
What part of speech is ga-ga?
Ga-ga can be a noun or an interjection.

Words near ga-ga in the dictionary

  1. g@yer
  2. g@yest
  3. g@ys
  4. GA
  5. ga dai
  6. ga-ga
  7. Ga.
  8. GAA
  9. Gaadhiffushi
  10. Gaadhoo
  11. Gaaerifaru

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ga-ga (page history and authors); gaga (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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