gogo

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡəʊɡəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡoʊɡoʊ/

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• Rhymes: (UK) -əʊɡəʊ, (US) -oʊɡoʊ

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

gogo (plural gogos)

1. An elasticated hair band.

• scrunchie, scrunchy

From Zulu ugogo.

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.

• à gogo

• GOOG, goog

Of native origin, probably a reduplicated form of an ancient root.

• IPA^(key): /ɡoɡo/ [ɡo.ɣ̞o]

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• Rhymes: -oɡo, -o
• Hyphenation: go‧go

gogo inan

1. mind, consciousness
2. soul, spirit
3. memory
4. thought, idea

• adimen
• buru
• sen

• “gogo”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “gogo”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Likely from a Nguni language; compare Zulu ugogo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡó.ɡo/, /ˈɡo.ɡo/

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

1. grandparent (grandfather or grandmother)

• ugogo (“senility, state of being old”)

From Zulu ugogo.

gogo

1. grandmother

Name of a character in Frédérick Lemaître’s play “Robert Macaire”, ultimately sound-symbolic. Compare gogue.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔ.ɡo/

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gogo m (plural gogos)

1. dupe

• “gogo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

gogo

1. Rōmaji transcription of ごご

Ultimately from Proto-North Halmahera (likely of the form *gogo); compare Galela gogo, Tabaru gogo, Ternate gogo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡo.ɡo/

gogo

1. body hair, fur, feathers

• M. J. van Baarda (1904), Het Lòda'sch, in vergelijking met het Galėla'sch dialect op Halmaheira

gogo

1. tern; noddy

• g'go
• ggo

Probably from Ewe agɔgó (“buttock”), Fon gògó (“buttock”).^[1]

gogo

1. (vulgar) ass, buttocks
   • 2003, Aptijt, “Boeke (Radio Versie)”, in Boeke:

     Saka nanga a gogo / dan wi e lolo nanga a baka

     Lower the ass / then we roll the back

2. (vulgar) anus

Inherited from Proto-Bantu [Term?].

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gogo class V (plural magogo class VI)

1. log (piece of wood)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

gógo class 1a (plural bógógo class 2a)

1. grandmother

This noun needs an inflection-table template.