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mozo
mozo
English
Noun
mozo (plural mozos)
- A male servant, especially an attendant to a bullfighter.
- 1992: When he rode up to the gerente’s house that morning he was accompanied by four friends and by a retinue of mozos and two packanimals saddled with hardwood kiacks, one empty, the other carrying their noon provisions. — Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
Anagrams
Spanish
Etymology
Uncertain origin, probably ultimately identical with muchacho (cf. mocho), or from Latin musteus (“must-like, of new wine, fresh”), from musteum, from mustum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmoθo/
Noun
mozo m (plural mozos, feminine moza)
- boy, lad
- servant, waiter, steward, manservant (in feminine: girl, maidservant)
- cat
Synonyms
- (waiter): camarero
Adjective
mozo m (feminine singular moza, masculine plural mozos, feminine plural mozas)