gak

gak

1. Alternative form of gack (“expression of disgust or disapproval”)
   • 2002, "93 Percent Wise", the NT then and now (discussion on Internet newsgroup alt.messianic)

     proselytizing is, ultimately, a disgusting way of relating to people. whether it's amway, xnty, or discovery toys, it's just awful manipulation pride and disrespect. i hate it, i hate that i did it, it's yucky yucky yucky. puke puke gak vomit.

   • 2009, Joel Rubinoff, It's not a dream: They're back (in Toronto Star, 19 March 2009)

     Unsure what to make of it, I flicked on Entertainment Tonight (7:30 p.m. weekdays on NBC, Global) to find — gak — his sister Marie, who served her own headline-grabbing stint on Dancing two seasons ago, being treated like visiting royalty by the outrageously overcaffeinated Mary Hart.

2. Alternative form of gack (“expression of trepidation”)
   • 2008, Erin McCarthy, You Don't Know Jack

     Gak. She'd thought that's what it meant. Her heart slammed into her gut. No, no, no.

gak (uncountable)

1. (slang) Alternative form of gack (“crystal meth”)
2. (slang) Alternative form of gack (“powder cocaine”)

From Proto-Albanian *gauka, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷōus (“ox, cow”) (compare English cow, Latvian govs, Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs)). Also see ka.

• IPA^(key): /ɡak/

gak m (indefinite plural geqe, definite singular gaku, definite plural geqet)

1. boar (male pig)

• gakth

From English gac, from Vietnamese gấc.

• Hyphenation: gak

gak

1. the spiny bitter gourd (Momordica cochinchinensis)

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡ̊ɑɡ̊]

From gaga (“gaga”), from French gaga, from gâteux (“senile, incontinent”).

gak (uninflected)

1. bats, nuts (see Thesaurus:insane)

• gakgak
• tåbelig
• vanvittig
• gakket

• være gak i låget (“to be bats or nuts”)

gak n (uninflected)

1. madness, insanity (see Thesaurus:insanity)

• gakgak
• vanvid

• have gak i låget (“to be bats or nuts”)

From Old Norse gakk, imperative of ganga, with assimilation of final -ng.

gak

1. (archaic-verb-form) imperative of gå

gak

1. Alternative form of enggak

gak

1. A cow

Cognate with Northern Tepehuan gáki, Cora huajchi, Central Tarahumara wakí (“dried tree or stick”).

gak (plural gagaak)

1. dry
2. thin

• gakiaꞌ

• R. de Willett, Elizabeth, et al. (2016) Diccionario tepehuano de Santa María Ocotán, Durango (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 48)‎ (in Spanish), electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 61