gogo

See also: gogó, go-go, and à gogo

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EnglishEdit

WOTD – 8 March 2016

Etymology 1Edit

NounEdit

gogo (plural gogos)

1. A girl’s elasticated hair band.

SynonymsEdit

• scrunchie, scrunchy

Etymology 2Edit

Zulu ugogo.

NounEdit

gogo (plural gogos)

1. (South Africa) Grandmother; elderly woman.
   • 2009, Debra Liebenow Daly, The Kingdom of Roses and Thorns, page 112:

     On the weekdays she and Bawinde worked for the South Africans, but as the weekend approached Elizabeth was anxious to get home to see if James had come to visit his gogo in the village.

AnagramsEdit

• GOOG, goog

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BasqueEdit

NounEdit

gogo

1. mind

See alsoEdit

• adimen
• buru
• sen

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ChichewaEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡó.ɡo/, /ˈɡo.ɡo/

NounEdit

gógo class 1a (plural agógo class 2) or gogo class 1a (plural agogo class 2)

1. grandparent (grandfather or grandmother)

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FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔ.ɡɔ/

EtymologyEdit

Name of a character in Frédérick Lemaître’s play “Robert Macaire”.

NounEdit

gogo m (plural gogos)

1. dupe

Further readingEdit

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

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JapaneseEdit

RomanizationEdit

gogo

1. Rōmaji transcription of ごご

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SamoanEdit

NounEdit

gogo

1. tern; noddy

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SwaziEdit

EtymologyEdit

NounEdit

gógo class 1a (plural bógógo class 2a)

1. grandmother

InflectionEdit

This noun needs an inflection-table template.