Doubletalk vs Gaga - What's the difference?
doubletalk | gaga |
, possibly written as one word in homage to George Orwell's Newspeak (as with doublespeak).
(informal) Mentally senile.
(informal) Crazy.
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(informal) Infatuated.
As a noun doubletalk
is , possibly written as one word in homage to george orwell's newspeak (as with doublespeak).As an adjective gaga is
(label) (exhibiting the deterioration in the mind).doubletalk
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gaga
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The elderly patients in the hospital were going gaga .
- 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?
- The girls were going gaga over the handsome new boy who joined the class.