gajo
Portuguese
Noun
gajo m (plural gajos, feminine gaja, feminine plural gajas)
- (informal, chiefly Portugal) guy; dude (used to address someone whose name is unknown, forgotten or ommited)
- 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 […]
- 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 […]
- 2011, DAVID MACHADO, Deixem Falar as Pedras, Leya →ISBN, page 167
Spanish
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *galleus (“oaken”), from Latin galla (“oak apple”).
Noun
gajo m (plural gajos)
Derived terms
- gajoso
- gajudo
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