goo goo ga ga

alternative goo-goo, ga-ga · alternative googoogaga

1. childishOnomatopoeic imitation of the sound of a baby who has not yet learned to speak.

   And the parents go, "Goo-goo, ga-ga, goo-goo, ga-ga."

   1998, Ramtha, The Children's View of Destiny and Purpose

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   If goo-goo, ga-ga is as foreign to you as a radio broadcast from Ouagadougou, try this definition of “baby talk”: It’s talk directed to your baby, concerning her care.

   2001, Jessica Teich, Brandel France de Bravo, Trees Make the Best Mobiles http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0312303254&id=FQUZ_k9XDlEC&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&sig=ky1XZrdpv_cTMLtudr13_fWgbP0

   Their attempts to return to the primitive Church structure have invariably been every bit as inauthentic as an older child’s attempt to imitate a baby by shaking a rattle and shouting “goo goo ga ga!”

   2002, Griff L Ruby, The Resurrection of the Roman Catholic Church http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0595250181&id=WSh0mrdmpdAC&pg=PA87&lpg=PA87&sig=97Ax7J0NI3EAHp0dmf-64eNPRu8

   I get Denise’s bag while she, my wife and ex-wife all make goo-goo ga-ga noises over Denise’s half-sister, now almost two years old.

   2004, Jack Canfield et al., Chicken Soup for the Unsinkable Soul http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1558746994&id=01iodvG1vJ8C&pg=PA305&lpg=PA305&sig=9wHRKQDgQR9_yrYt71F6BvFFPx8

   2005, Mort Walker, Conversations, Jason Whiton ed. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1578067006&id=AAh66NT6WsgC&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&sig=_N8Z0cIlWYHTC8TXZoXDddvtg_g But I had read something by Sinclair Lewis many years ago, and there was one page where some guy was looking down in the baby carriage going ‘Goo goo ga ga’ and the baby was thinking adult thoughts like ‘Ah, the stupid guy. What’s the matter, can’t he talk straight?’