Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A man who has a continuing sexual relationship with and receives financial support from a woman.
- n. A man who is hired as an escort or a dancing partner for a woman.
Wiktionary
- n. A man who has a sexual relationship with a woman from whom he receives payment.
- n. A hired escort or dancing partner for a woman.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a man who has sex with and is supported by a woman
Etymologies
- French, perhaps from gigolette, dancing girl, prostitute, from giguer, to dance, from gigue, fiddle, from Old French; see gigot. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Back then, when society could be broken down straightforwardly into such basic and absolute categories, the title gigolo must have been easier to apply and decidedly less pejorative.”
“On the form of one applicant, some classroom enemy or irresponsible jokester had crossed out "lawyer" or "teacher" or whatever safe bet the kid had written down, and inserted instead - clearly in another hand - the word "gigolo".”
“Sam "The Man," the gentleman gigolo, is looking camera shy.”
“This elitist, narcissistic, gigolo is an embarrassment and for the PI to back him just how out of touch they are.”
“A man who takes things from a woman is called a gigolo.”
“I have been called a gigolo, a freeloader, unemployed, a sham, and many other things that don ` t bear repeating.”
“I have been called a gigolo, a free-loader, unemployed, a sham and many other things that don ` t bear repeating.”
“FTFA: Q: So you'd rather be called a gigolo than a prostitute.”
“Salon's Glenn Greenwald looking at the wingnut attacks on Kerry being called "gigolo" or a "kept man" a mere four years ago.”
“Then again Rush, Coulter and the like all demeaned Kerry for being a "gigolo" and a "kept man", but you don't hear that kind of talk from them any more.”
Daughter Of Rich GOPer Funding Ayers Ad Is An Obama Supporter
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gigolo’.
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Loanwords
Since English is littered with loanwords, everything could conceivably end up here. But there is a distinct feeling associated with these.. maybe they're young additions to the English language; I ...
iceberg, fjord, firth, abbey, abyss, anorak, apartheid, assassin, avalanche, avocado, balaclava, banana and 104 more...
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Contemporary character classes?
as a youth I, and some others, made a pen-and-paper RPG, based in contemporary crime and suspense fiction + nonfiction, set in America's blighted urban centers, anonymous slurbs, and godforsaken hi...
acrobat, actor, anarchist, arsonist, artist, bagman, accountant, adrenaline junkie, airplane pilot, anti-racist skinhead, art student, assassin and 192 more...
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old timey talk
Words or Sayings from the 1920's or whatever that no one really uses anymore (at least in that context).
scram, bearcat, heavens to betsy, dick, double-cross, ducky, gams, goofy, hooch, jalopy, john, joe and 174 more...
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Words that can be spelled on an upsid...
Imagine my joy when I was wearing my calculator watch and was first introduced to someone named Leslie - there was exactly enough room on the display for 317537.14.
Edit: I've discove...hi, hello, leslie, sheesh, she, bells, hells, hog, boss, goggles, he, bob and 233 more...
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Words sung by: Belle and Sebastian
beguiling, herbaceous, peninsula, suffragette, damascan, hastening, berserk, overtime, leccy, bestow, swathe, arab strap and 193 more...
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Gee, that's hard and soft!
Words that contain both a "hard G" and a "soft G".
gauge, garage, gorge, gorgeous, gigantic, grudge, glurge, begrudge, garbage, grunge, engage, disgorge and 24 more...
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What is a man?
Masculine archetypes and stereotypes, glorifications and vilifications.
This is in line with Femmesque, though narrower in its aim. I want simply the loaded nouns that denote a man's...cuckold, provider, rapist, messiah, hero, demon lover, animus, the man in the bu..., loser, mr. right, stud, bloke and 18 more...
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Potpourri
eponymous, aa, pulchritude, gizmo, macabre, sui generis, solecism, solipsism, eldritch, samizdat, queue, obsequious and 469 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Lolita
Words to remember from Nabokov's "Lolita"
concordance, limned, lurid, puerility, variorum, perspicacious, exigency, acrostic, solipsism, mnemosyne, involution, fatidic and 227 more...
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Words that are fun to say
stipple, carbuncle, dongle, exemplar, misbegotten, gigolo, salubrious, jupiter, propinquity, piglet, tobogganing, supercilious and 309 more...
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Words I like
These are words that just sound cool, make me smile, etc.
sizzle, ruby, prismatic, wonderstruck, violet, raggamuffin, garland, vignette, dandelion, petticoat, tulip, spring and 21 more...
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All Those Jazz Words
Words coined or popularized during the Roaring '20s.
back-seat driver, jalopy, step on it, cop a plea, fuzz, gimmick, hijack, speakeasy, to take (someone)..., cockeyed, scofflaw, shellacked and 74 more...
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Maths lessons well spent
Words that can be spelled on a calculator. "Beghilosz"
boobless, giggle, igloo, goose, egg, gosh, loose, shell, bible, hellhole, hobo, ohio and 21 more...
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The Roaring Twenties
A selection of words and phrases that entered the language between 1920 and 1929. Primary sources for this list are:
There's a Word For It by Sol Steinmetz (2010, Harmony Books, New Y...nobrow, booboisie, robot, It girl, scofflaw, Babbitt, bozo, feedback, icky, daiquiri, subprime, T-shirt and 27 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for gigolo.
Prolagus How are you feeling?
I don't think you can be dealing
With the situation very well
You take a lover for a dirty weekend, that's OK
But when it's over
You are looking at the working week through the eyes of a gigolo
(Seeing other people, by Belle and Sebastian) Aug 8, 2008
sionnach 10^^21 picolos (= 10^^9 los) Nov 6, 2007