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Vinony

gigolo

noun

  1. male escort or social companion
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪɡ.ə.loʊ/ / /ˈd͡ʒɪɡ.ə.ləʊ/

noun

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.

  1. A man funded by women who find him attractive, particularly

    “How's the, uh, gigolo campaign going?”

  2. A man funded by women who find him attractive, particularly

    “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'”

  3. A man funded by women who find him attractive, particularly

verb

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.

  1. To work or act as a gigolo.

    “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.”

  2. To provide (someone) with the services of a gigolo.

    “He sat down at my table in an outdoor trattoria to gigolo me and promptly forgot his lines and went blank.”

    “The beach wasn’t crowded yet, and as far as I could tell, there were no gigolos or women waiting to be gigoloed.”

  3. To offer (oneself or someone else) to someone as a gigolo.

    “It might be a joke on the rest of the world; it was also a joke on himself, that he had gigoloed himself to such scurfy stuff.”

    “What would have happened just then I do not know, if Mr. Vertigo had not appeared with the family collie, whom he had gigoloed to Carl Schurz Park.”