Dada

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Dada /ˈdɑːdɑː/

▶noun an early 20th-century international movement in art, literature, music, and film, repudiating and mocking artistic and social conventions and emphasizing the illogical and absurd.

– derivatives
Dadaism noun,
Dadaist noun & adjective,
Dadaistic adjective.

– origin Fr., lit. ‘hobby horse’, the title of a review which appeared in Zurich in 1916.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dada1 /ˈdadə/

▶noun informal one's father.

– origin C17: perh. imitative of a young child's first syllables (see dad).

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dada2 /ˈdɑːdɑː/

▶noun Indian an older brother or male cousin.

■ a respectful form of address for any familiar older male.

– origin from Hindi dādā.