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gila¹

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Malay gila.

adjective

  1. Singlish, not comparable Mad; crazy; insane. You gila (mad) or what? Our government good government okay?

    Similar: siao

Gila²

  • /ˈhiː.lə/

Where it comes from

From Spanish Gila, from a native (Yuma?) name.

proper noun

  1. A 649-mile (1,044 km) tributary of the Colorado River which flows through New Mexico and Arizona in the United States. Some of its tributaries rise in the mountains to the south, in the territory belonging to the republic of Mexico, but the Gila gathers the greater part of its waters from a great plateau on the northeast.
  2. A census-designated place in Grant County, New Mexico.

noun Gilas

  1. A Gila monster. The dealers in live Gilas were paying local trappers twenty-five to fifty cents an inch; in turn the lizards were being sold to out-of-state dealers at one to two dollars an inch.
  2. A Gila trout. In addition, area streams containing Gilas provide potential for far more fishing than any brown trout water — first, because the Gilas ...

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"gila." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/gila. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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gila. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/gila

Chicago

"gila." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/gila.

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@misc{gila_2026,
  title = {gila},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gila},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}