gajo

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

• ajog, joga

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀕𑀚𑁄 (Brahmi script)
• गजो (Devanagari script)
• গজো (Bengali script)
• ගජො (Sinhalese script)
• ဂဇော or ၷၹေႃ (Burmese script)
• คโช or คะโช (Thai script)
• ᨣᨩᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ຄໂຊ or ຄະໂຊ (Lao script)
• គជោ (Khmer script)
• 𑄉𑄎𑄮 (Chakma script)

Noun

gajo

1. nominative singular of gaja (“elephant”)

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.ʒu/

Noun

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

1. (informal, chiefly Portugal) guy; bloke; dude

   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 [he] never […]

Further reading

• “gajo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “gajo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaxo/ [ˈɡa.xo]
• 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. (Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay, Rioplatense, horticulture) cutting (part of plant removed to cultivate a new plant)

   Synonym: esqueje

Derived terms

• desgajar
• gajoso
• gajudo
• la de gajos

Further reading

• “gajo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10