gazabo

American  

[guh-zey-boh] / gəˈzeɪ boʊ /

noun

Older Slang.

gazabos plural

1. a fellow; man; boy.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• gazabos
  plural

Etymology

Origin of gazabo

1895–1900; perhaps < Spanish gazapo sly customer, sharpie, literally, bunny, young rabbit, akin to Portuguese caçapo; Iberian Rom word of obscure origin

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

gazabo gazabos

"Don't you believe anything this innocent-eyed gazabo tells you, Mr. Rapponi," he warned amiably.

From The Flying U Ranch by Bower, B. M.

It's a dilapidated tumbledown old gazabo of a place, and yet there's a kind of prettiness about it in summer-time, when the garden is full of flowers.

From Fenton's Quest by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

For her mother's and grandmother's voices rose up shrill and shriller, demanding what at all hijjis gazabo she'd got on her.

From Strangers at Lisconnel by Barlow, Jane

I figger they ain't a gazabo on the track can hand it to me.

From Blister Jones by Hambridge, Jay

Young hero— Say, Bill, what's the matter with that gazabo, anyway?

From The Ranch at the Wolverine by Bower, B. M.

Th' newspapers is run be a lot iv gazabos that thinks wurruk is th' ambition iv mankind.

From Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen by Dunne, Finley Peter

Do you know any of the gazabos about here?

From Boy Scouts in an Airship; or, the Warning from the Sky by Ralphson, G. Harvey (George Harvey)

Joe's 'n' Cal's dough is comin' down the line, 'n' the gazabos, thinkin' it's wise money, trails.

From Blister Jones by Hambridge, Jay

“The gazabos we drove off when we arrived will come back with reinforcements, and—and there you are.”

From Boy Scouts in the Canal Zone The Plot Against Uncle Sam by Ralphson, G. Harvey (George Harvey)

The snake man instead of getting back on the ballyhoo where he belonged, stood around the snake cage, watching the new rattlers, and along came a couple of gazabos who commenced talking about them.

From Side Show Studies by Herford, Oliver