goo goo ga ga
/ˌɡuː ɡuː ˈɡɑː ɡɑː/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "And the parents go, "Goo-goo, ga-ga, goo-goo, ga-ga.""
- "If goo-goo, ga-ga is as foreign to you as a radio broadcast from Ouagadougou, try this definition of “baby talk”: It’s talk directed to your baby, concerning her care."
- "Their attempts to return to the primitive Church structure have invariably been every bit as inauthentic as an older child’s attempt to imitate a baby by shaking a rattle and shouting “goo goo ga ga!”"
- "I get Denise’s bag while she, my wife and ex-wife all make goo-goo ga-ga noises over Denise’s half-sister, now almost two years old."
- "2005, Mort Walker, Conversations, Jason Whiton ed. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1578067006&id=AAh66NT6WsgC&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&sig=_N8Z0cIlWYHTC8TXZoXDddvtg_g But I had read something by Sinclair Lewis many years ago, and there was one page where some guy was looking down in the baby carriage going ‘Goo goo ga ga’ and the baby was thinking adult thoughts like ‘Ah, the stupid guy. What’s the matter, can’t he talk straight?’"
Etymology
Inflected Forms
goo-goo, ga-ga (alternative)
googoogaga (alternative)