gajo

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.

• ajog, joga

gajo

1. nominative singular of gaja (“elephant”)

From gajão, from Caló gachó (“man”), from Romani gaʒo (“non-Romani”).[1]

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 [he] never […]

• “gajo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “gajo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaxo/ [ˈɡa.xo]
• Rhymes: -axo
• Syllabification: ga‧jo

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

• “gajo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014