Saga vs Gaga - What's the difference?
saga | gaga |
An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.
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, title= (informal) Mentally senile.
(informal) Crazy.
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(informal) Infatuated.
As a noun saga
is an Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.As a proper noun Saga
is saga Prefecture - a prefecture in the Western island, Kyushu, Japan.As an adjective gaga is
mentally senile.saga
English
Noun
(en noun)Blackburn 0-4 Man City, passage=Manchester City put the Carlos Tevez saga behind them with a classy victory at Blackburn that keeps them level on points with leaders Manchester United.}}
Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}
Anagrams
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English
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.
