gajo
English edit
Noun edit
gajo (plural gajos)
- 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.
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Alternative forms
Noun edit
gajo
- nominative singular of gaja (“elephant”)
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From gajão, from Caló gachó (“man”), from Romani gaʒo (“non-Romani”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gajo m (plural gajos, feminine gaja, feminine plural gajas)
- (informal, chiefly Portugal) guy; dude (as a term of address)
- 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 [he] never […]
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Further reading edit
- “gajo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “gajo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *galleus (“oaken”), from Latin galla (“oak apple”).
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Noun edit
gajo m (plural gajos)
- a naturally occurring segment or piece of a fruit
- small cluster of grapes
- tine, prong, jag
- spur of mountains
- tree branch
- (Argentina, botany) cutting
- Synonym: esqueje
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Further reading edit
- “gajo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014