bananas
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Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bəˈnɑː.nəz/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) enPR: bə-nă'nəz, IPA(key): /bəˈnæ.nəz/
Noun
bananas
Adjective
bananas (comparative more bananas, superlative most bananas)
- Crazy, mad, nuts.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:insane
- 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 377:
- I am astonished, really astonished, that you didn't put away some dough. You must be bananas.
- 2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times:
- The ensuing snarknado also seemed to goose the TV ratings. Hundreds of thousands of viewers switched on the movie after it began, suggesting that they’d gotten wind through Twitter of the bananas spectacle that was unfolding.
- 2023 October 5, Damian Carrington, “‘Gobsmackingly bananas’: scientists stunned by planet’s record September heat”, in The Guardian, UK:
- “September was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist, absolutely gobsmackingly bananas,” said Zeke Hausfather, at the Berkeley Earth climate data project.
Derived terms
Related terms
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Verb
bananas
- second-person singular past historic of bananer
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
banãnas m (plural banãnai) stress pattern 2
- banana (fruit)
Declension
| singular (vienaskaita) | plural (daugiskaita) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (vardininkas) | banãnas | banãnai |
| genitive (kilmininkas) | banãno | banãnų |
| dative (naudininkas) | banãnui | banãnams |
| accusative (galininkas) | banãną | bananùs |
| instrumental (įnagininkas) | bananù | banãnais |
| locative (vietininkas) | bananè | banãnuose |
| vocative (šauksmininkas) | banãne | banãnai |
Declension of banãnas
Etymology
Probably from English.
Adjective
bananas (indeclinable)
Usage notes
Not an officially recognised word, but it sees a lot of use.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- gå bananas (“go bananas”)
Etymology
Probably from English.
Adjective
bananas (indeclinable?)
Usage notes
As above.
Derived terms
- gå bananas (“go bananas”)
Noun
bananas
Noun
bananas
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /baˈnanas/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /baˈna(ː)naz/
Noun
bananas f pl
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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