gak

• enPR: găk, IPA^(key): /ɡæk/
• Rhymes: -æk
• Homophones: gac, gack

gak

1. Alternative form of gack (“expression of disgust or disapproval”).
   • 2002, 93 Percent Wise, “the NT then and now”, in alt.messianic (Usenet):

     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 March 19, Joel Rubinoff, “It's not a dream: They're back”, in Toronto Star:

     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”).

Inherited from Proto-Albanian *gauka, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“ox, cow”) (compare English cow, Latvian govs, Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs)). Also see ka.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ɡak/

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

1. boar (male pig)

• gakth

gak

1. you (singular)

• transnewguinea.org, citing McElhanon, KA & Voorhoeve, CL. 1970. The Trans-New Guinea Phylum: Explorations in deep-level genetic relationships. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

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) imperative of gå

gak

1. alternative form of enggak

gak

1. cow

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡak/ [ˈɡaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Hyphenation: gak

Clipping of jugak.

gak (Jawi spelling ݢق)

1. (colloquial) alternative form of juga

   Aku nak gi gak!

   I wanna go too!

Onomatopoeic.

gak (Jawi spelling ݢق)

1. (onomatopoeia) The sound that a crow makes.

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

gak (Jawi spelling ݢق)

1. (Kelantan-Pattani) A masonry oven.

• “gak” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Cognate with Northern Tepehuan gáki, Cora huajchi, Central Tarahumara wakí (“dried tree or stick”), Huichol vaquíri (“to become dry”), and Classical Nahuatl huāqui (“to become dry”).

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)‎^[2] (in Spanish), electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 61

• IPA^(key): /ɡák/

gak (plural a̱gi̱gak)

1. boundary