gak

Imitative of a gagging noise in the throat.

gak

1. An expression of disgust or trepidation.
   • 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.

   • 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.

   • 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.

gak (uncountable)

1. (slang) The drug crystal methamphetamine.
2. (slang) cocaine

From Proto-Albanian *gauka, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷōus ‘ox, cow’ (compare English cow, Latvian govs, Greek βοῦς (voῦs)).

• IPA^(key): /ɡak/

gak m (indefinite plural geqe)

1. boar (male pig)

• gakth

From English gac, from Vietnamese gấc.

• Hyphenation: gak

gak

1. the spiny bitter gourd (Momordica cochinchinensis)

• IPA^(key): /ɡak/, [ɡ̊ɑɡ̊]

From the adjective gak (“nuts, bats”).

gak n

1. madness, insanity (see Thesaurus:insanity)

have gak i låget, være gak i låget – to be bats or nuts

• gakgak
• vanvid

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

gak

1. bats, nuts (see Thesaurus:insane)

• gakgak
• tåbelig
• vanvittig

See gå (“to walk”).

gak

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

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