gigolo
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gigolo
- /ˈd͡ʒɪɡ.ə.loʊ/ US
- /ˈd͡ʒɪɡ.ə.ləʊ/ UK
Where it comes from
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.
noun gigolos
- A man funded by women who find him attractive, particularly How's the, uh, gigolo campaign going?
- A hired escort or dancing partner. 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'
- A male prostitute with female clients.
Similar: male prostitute
verb gigoloes · gigolos · gigoloing · gigoloed
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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noun
Similar: male prostitute
Translations
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noun hired escort or dancing partner
| Español | gigoló |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | エスコート esukōto, ダンスパートナー専門の男 dansu pātonā senmon no otoko |
| 中文 | 舞男 wǔnán |
| Português | acompanhante |
| Français | gigolo |
| Deutsch | Gigolo |
| Italiano | accompagnatore, ballerino |
| Русский | жи́голо žígolo |
| العربية | دَاعِر dāʕir, بَغِيّ baḡiyy, عَاهِر ʕāhir, زَانِيّ zāniyy, فَاحِش fāḥiš |
noun male having sexual relationships for money
| Español | gigoló, puto, saltimpanqui |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 남창 namchang |
| 日本語 | ジゴロ jigoro, 男娼 danshō |
| 中文 | 面首 miànshǒu, 男妓 nánjì, 妓男 jìnán, 男娼 nánchāng |
| Português | gigolô, garoto de programa |
| Français | prostitué, gigolo |
| Deutsch | Gigolo, Stricher |
| Italiano | gigolò, mantenuto |
| Română | gigolo |
| Русский | жи́голо žígolo, проститу́т prostitút, ха́стлер xástler, альфо́нс alʹfóns |
| Tiếng Việt | kĩ nam, trai bao |
| العربية | دَاعِر dāʕir, بَغِيّ baḡiyy, عَاهِر ʕāhir, زَانِيّ zāniyy, فَاحِش fāḥiš |
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title = {gigolo},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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