bananas
English
editPronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bəˈnɑː.nəz/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) enPR: bə-nă'nəz, IPA(key): /bəˈnæ.nəz/
Noun
editbananas
Adjective
editbananas (comparative more bananas, superlative most bananas)
- Crazy, mad, nuts.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:insane
- 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 377:
- I am astonished, really astonished, that you didn't put away some dough. You must be bananas.
- 2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times[1]:
- The ensuing snarknado also seemed to goose the TV ratings. Hundreds of thousands of viewers switched on the movie after it began, suggesting that they’d gotten wind through Twitter of the bananas spectacle that was unfolding.
- 2023 October 5, Damian Carrington, “‘Gobsmackingly bananas’: scientists stunned by planet’s record September heat”, in The Guardian[2], UK:
- “September was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist, absolutely gobsmackingly bananas,” said Zeke Hausfather, at the Berkeley Earth climate data project.
Derived terms
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editFrench
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Verb
editbananas
- second-person singular past historic of bananer
Lithuanian
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editbanãnas m (plural banãnai) stress pattern 2
- banana (fruit)
Declension
editDeclension of banãnas
singular (vienaskaita) | plural (daugiskaita) | |
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nominative (vardininkas) | banãnas | banãnai |
genitive (kilmininkas) | banãno | banãnų |
dative (naudininkas) | banãnui | banãnams |
accusative (galininkas) | banãną | bananùs |
instrumental (įnagininkas) | bananù | banãnais |
locative (vietininkas) | bananè | banãnuose |
vocative (šauksmininkas) | banãne | banãnai |
Norwegian Bokmål
editEtymology
editProbably from English.
Adjective
editbananas (indeclinable)
Usage notes
editNot an officially recognised word, but it sees a lot of use.
Synonyms
edit- (bananas, crazy): gal, sprø, kokkeliko, klin kokos, ikke riktig, ikke riktig klok
Derived terms
edit- gå bananas (“go bananas”)
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editProbably from English.
Adjective
editbananas (indeclinable?)
Usage notes
editAs above.
Derived terms
edit- gå bananas (“go bananas”)
Portuguese
editNoun
editbananas
Spanish
editNoun
editbananas
Welsh
editPronunciation
edit- (North Wales) IPA(key): /baˈnanas/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /baˈna(ː)naz/
Noun
editbananas f pl
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