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A gigolo is a man who is paid by a woman — often a richer and older woman — to be her companion and to have sex with her. English borrowed the word in the 1920s, and it still has a slightly old-fashioned, slightly glamorous, slightly flavour, the sort of word films and newspapers like. People sometimes stretch it, a bit loosely, to any man who lives on a woman’s money, even when nobody is paying him as a job. It is not a neutral job title in polite talk; it can sound like an insult. It is only used of men.
小白臉（被有錢女人包養的男人）
組成From French gigolo, first used in English in 1922. French gigolo was a back-formation from gigolette, a girl you could hire as a dancing partner (from the 1850s). That came from giguer, “to dance,” from gigue, a fiddle and a lively dance — the same family English jig belongs to. The “paid partner” idea started on the dance floor and later narrowed to a man kept by a woman.
同家族的字
- jigboth go back to French gigue, a lively dance (and a fiddle)
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gigolonoun/ˈd͡ʒɪɡ.ə.loʊ/
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A man funded by women who find him attractive, particularly
- How's the, uh, gigolo campaign going?
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datedA 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'
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A man funded by women who find him attractive, particularly
gigoloverb/ˈd͡ʒɪɡ.ə.loʊ/
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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.
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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.
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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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。