gaga vs wild what difference

what is difference between gaga and wild

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːɡɑː/

Etymology 1

From French 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.

   • 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. (informal) Infatuated.

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

Usage notes

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

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

gaga (uncountable)

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

Balinese

Romanization

gaga

1. Romanization of ᬕᬕ
2. Romanization of ᬕᬵᬕᬵ

Barngarla

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɡa/

Noun

gaga

1. head

References

• Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad (2019). Barngarlidhi Manoo (Speaking Barngarla Together) (Barngarla Alphabet & Picture Book). p.50-56.
  Part 1 Part 2
• Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad and Clamor Wilhelm Schürmann (2018). Online Barngarla Dictionary.
• Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad (2016). Barngarla Aboriginal Language Dictionary App.
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.regenr8.dictionary.barngarla
  https://apps.apple.com/au/app/barngarla/id1424856161

French

Etymology

Reduplication of the base of gâteux (“senile”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.ɡa/

Adjective

gaga (plural gagas)

1. (informal) gaga (senile)
2. (informal) gaga (crazy)
3. (informal) gaga (infatuated)

Synonyms

senile

• fou
• foufou
• gâteux
• neuneu
• zinzin

crazy

• fou
• foufou
• neuneu
• zinzin

Further reading

• “gaga” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Ga

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɡa/

Noun

gaga (plural gagai)

1. any ant with large mandibles, such as a soldier ant or driver ant

See also

• tsatsu
• tsatsutsuru
• gbense

Gamilaraay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaɡa/

Noun

gaga

1. wine

References

• (2017) Giacon J Gamilaraay-Yuwaalaraay Dictionary Supplement

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡaɡa]
• Hyphenation: ga‧ga

Adjective

gaga (not comparable)

1. (predicative, colloquial) gaga

Further reading

• “gaga” in Duden online

Japanese

Romanization

gaga

1. Rōmaji transcription of がが

Lindu

Adverb

gaga

1. very

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɡɐ

Noun

gaga f (plural gagas)

1. female equivalent of gago

Adjective

gaga

1. feminine singular of gago

Salar

Noun

gaga

1. brother

Tagalog

Etymology

• From gago

Adjective

gaga

1. (vulgar) (feminine) an idiot, asshole

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish غاغا‎.

Noun

gaga (definite accusative gagayı, plural gagalar)

1. bill, beak

Declension

Derived terms

• gagalamak

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “غاغا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1334

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: wīld, IPA^(key): /waɪld/
• Rhymes: -aɪld

Etymology 1

From Middle English wild, wilde, from Old English wilde, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþī, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“hair, wool, grass, ear (of corn), forest”).

Adjective

wild (comparative wilder, superlative wildest)

1. Untamed; not domesticated; specifically, in an unbroken line of undomesticated animals (as opposed to feral, referring to undomesticated animals whose ancestors were domesticated).

   Antonym: tame

2. From or relating to wild creatures.

4. Unrestrained or uninhibited.

5. Raucous, unruly, or licentious.

6. (electrical) Of unregulated and varying frequency.

7. Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.

8. Furious; very angry.
9. Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.

10. Enthusiastic.

11. Inaccurate.

12. Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.

13. (nautical) Hard to steer; said of a vessel.
14. (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.

    Antonym: tame

15. (slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.

16. Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
    • 2009, Leonardo Vanneschi, Steven Gustafson, Alberto Moraglio, Genetic Programming: 12th European Conference

      We define a pattern as a valid GP subtree that might contain wild characters [i.e. wildcards] in any of its nodes.

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

wild (comparative more wild, superlative most wild)

1. Inaccurately; not on target.

Noun

wild (plural wilds)

1. The undomesticated state of a wild animal

2. (chiefly in the plural) a wilderness
   • 1730–1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland

     Thus every good his native wilds impart
     Imprints the patriot passion on his heart;
     And e’en those ills that round his mansion rise
     Enhance the bliss his scanty funds supplies.

Verb

wild (third-person singular simple present wilds, present participle wilding, simple past and past participle wilded)

1. (intransitive, slang) To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang.
   • 1989, David E. Pitt, Jogger’s Attackers Terrorized at Least 9 in 2 Hours, New York Times (April 22, 1989), page 1:

     …Chief of Detectives Robert Colangelo, who said the attacks appeared unrelated to money, race, drugs, or alcohol, said that some of the 20 youths brought in for questioning has told investigators that the crime spree was the product of a pastime called “wilding“.
     “It’s not a term that we in the police had heard before,” the chief said, noting that the police were unaware of any similar incident in the park recently. “They just said, ‘We were going wilding.’ In my mind at this point, it implies that they were going to raise hell.”…

   • 1999, Busta Rhymes (Trevor Taheim Smith, Jr.), Iz They Wildin Wit Us? (song)

     Now is they wildin with us / And getting rowdy with us.

Etymology 2

Noun

wild (plural wilds)

1. Alternative form of weald

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Middle Dutch wilt, from Dutch wild, from Old Dutch *wildi, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vəlt/

Adjective

wild (attributive wilde, comparative wilder, superlative wildste)

1. wild

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch wilt, from Old Dutch wildi, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþī, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋɪlt/
• Hyphenation: wild
• Rhymes: -ɪlt
• Homophone: wilt

Adjective

wild (comparative wilder, superlative wildst)

1. wild

Inflection

Derived terms

• wildebras
• wildplassen
• wildplukken
• wildvreemd

Descendants

• Afrikaans: wild
• Berbice Creole Dutch: weldri
• Jersey Dutch: wäld
• Negerhollands: wild, weeld, welt, willit, wil

Noun

wild n (uncountable)

1. game (food; animals hunted for meat)
2. wildlife
3. wilderness

Derived terms

• jachtwild
• pluimwild
• wildseizoen
• wildwissel

Descendants

• Afrikaans: wild

Anagrams

• lidw.

German

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German wilde, from Old High German wildi, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþī, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɪlt/
• Rhymes: -ɪlt

Adjective

wild (comparative wilder, superlative am wildesten)

1. wild
2. (obsolete) strange

   Synonym: fremd

Declension

Derived terms

• halb so wild
• wilde Ehe
• wildern
• wildfremd
• Wildheit

Related terms

• Wildente
• Wildfang
• Wildgans
• Wildhengst
• Wildlachs
• Wildnis
• Wildernis
• Wildschwein

Further reading

• “wild” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “wild” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “wild” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “wild” in Duden online

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Central Franconian weld

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vilt/

Adjective

wild (comparative wilder, superlative wildest)

1. wild

Declension

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German wilde, from Old Saxon wildi, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþī, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.

Compare English, Dutch and German wild, West Frisian wyld, Danish vild.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɪlt/

Adjective

wild (comparative willer, superlative willst)

1. wild

Declension

Maltese

Alternative forms

• weld

Etymology

From Arabic وَلَد‎ (walad).

Pronunciation

Noun

wild m (plural ulied)

1. offspring

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