gigolo
/ˈd͡ʒɪɡ.ə.loʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.47 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A man funded by women who find him attractive, particularly
noun
A man funded by women who find him attractive, particularly
Example Sentences
- "How's the, uh, gigolo campaign going?"
- "I'm just a gigolo / And everywhere I go / People know the part I'm playin' / Paid for every dance / Sellin' each romance / Ooh, what they're sayin'"
- "He says he worked at one thing and another, whatever he could get, but near as I can figure out he was mostly gigoloing, and not finding too many heavy-money dames."
- "Since my arrival I’d lost seventeen pounds. What with gigoloing all night, working all day, worrying myself flaming sick, I’d had enough."
- "‘[…] [He was s]electing paintings to be forged, supplying canvases and materials, scripting out the fake papers, while you gigoloed with every woman in town and beyond, getting them to paint or deal or buy these fricking pieces, these masterfully detailed fakes!’"
- "He sat down at my table in an outdoor trattoria to gigolo me and promptly forgot his lines and went blank."
Etymology
First attested in English in 1922. From French gigolo (“young lover kept by an older woman”), first attested in that sense in 1904 (attested since 1850 in the sense “Amant de cœur, compagnon d'une gigolette", and since 1894 in the sense “elegant young man whose means of livelihood are dubious”), a back-formation from gigolette (“promiscuous dancing girl, girl available for hire as a dancing partner”), attested since 1850, from giguer (“to dance”), from gigue (“fiddle; type of dance; jig”). More at jig.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: gigolo
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈd͡ʒɪɡ.ə.loʊ/
- British English: /ˈd͡ʒɪɡ.ə.ləʊ/
Usage
Inflected Forms
gigolos (plural)
gigoloes (present, singular)
gigolos (present, singular)
gigoloing (participle, present)
gigoloed (participle, past)
gigoloed (past)
Synonyms
male prostitute