gajo

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English

Noun

gajo (plural gajos)

  1. Alternative form of gadjo (“non-Roma”)
    • 1957, Ian Fleming, chapter 17, in From Russia With Love:
      He will give you a job—taming his women and killing for him. That is a great compliment to a gajo—a foreigner. You should say something in reply.

Anagrams

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Alternative forms

Alternative forms

Noun

gajo

  1. nominative singular of gaja (“elephant”)

Portuguese

Etymology

From gajão, from Caló gachó (“man”), from Romani gaʒo (“non-Romani”).

Pronunciation

Noun

gajo m (plural gajos, feminine gaja, feminine plural gajas)

  1. (informal, chiefly Portugal) guy; dude (as a term of address)
    Synonyms: tipo, sujeito, (Brazil) cara
    • 2011, DAVID MACHADO, Deixem Falar as Pedras, Leya, →ISBN, page 167:
      O Pedro João Vilela era, resumido numa única palavra (que vale mais do que muitas palavras que por aí andam), um gajo fixe. Dito de outra maneira: nunca tive vontade de lhe bater. O gajo cumprimentava-me nos corredores, embora nunca  […]
      Pedro João Vilela was, to express it with a single word (which is worth more than many of the words moving about), a cool guy. In other words: I have never felt like hitting him. The guy would greet me in the corridors, although never

References

  1. ^ “gajo”, in Ciberduvidas‎, 2015 March 25 (last accessed)

Further reading

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *galleus (“oaken”), from Latin galla (“oak apple”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡaxo/
  • Rhymes: -axo
  • Syllabification: ga‧jo

Noun

gajo m (plural gajos)

  1. a naturally occurring segment or piece of a fruit
  2. small cluster of grapes
  3. tine, prong, jag
  4. spur of mountains
  5. tree branch
  6. (Argentina, botany) cutting
    Synonym: esqueje

Derived terms

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