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, 2003–2024
• “gajo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

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. (Argentina, botany) cutting

   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