lezzo

English

Etymology

Shortened alteration of lesbian, +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛzəʊ

Noun

lezzo (plural lezzos)

1. (Australia, slang) A lesbian.

   Synonyms: lesbo, lezbo

   • 1984, Barry Dickins, The Crookes of Epping, Pascoe Publishing, →ISBN, page 26,

     She was also a lezzo.

   • 1986, Angelo Loukakis, Vernacular Dreams, University of Queensland, →ISBN, page 136,

     There is too many hippies and lezzos riding around on bikes these days already.

   • a1997, from The Picture, quoted in Jill Julius Matthews, Sex in Public: Australian Sexual Cultures, Allen & Unwin (1997), →ISBN, page 4,

     Wot's going down? Hot lezzo love-ins, that's wot . . . The Bisexual revolution has begun. "Lesbian chic" is born—and I can't tell you what GOOD NEWS this is for us.

   • 2006, Craig Price, Birth of the Ecowarriors, Lulu Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 68,

     "Piss off Greek girl," he bluffed. "Go find your lezzo friend."

References

• Sue Butler and Denise Angelo, Australian Phrasebook, Lonely Planet (1998), →ISBN, page 37.

Italian

Etymology

From Italian lezzare, apheresis of Italian olezzare (“to stink”), from Vulgar Latin *olidiāre, derived from Latin olidus (“emitting a smell”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlet.t͡so/, (traditional) /ˈled.d͡zo/
• Rhymes: -ettso, (traditional) -eddzo
• Hyphenation: léz‧zo

Noun

lezzo m (plural lezzi)

1. stink, stench

Further reading

• lezzo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• lezzo in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa