gigolo英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A man funded by women who find him attractive, particularly

— How's the, uh, gigolo campaign going?
A man funded by women who find him attractive, particularly; A hired escort or dancing partner. dated

— 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 man funded by women who find him attractive, particularly; A male prostitute with female clients.

动词 v.

To work or act as a gigolo. intransitive

— 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. transitive

— 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. reflexive,transitive

— 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.

词形变化

gigolos plural gigoloes present,singular,third-person gigolos present,singular,third-person gigoloing participle,present gigoloed participle,past gigoloed past

词汇关系

近义词

male prostitute

上位词

prostitute

下位词

gigolo homowhore kept man Valentino

词源

词源 1

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.

词源 2

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.