mozo

Etymology

From Spanish mozo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈməʊzəʊ/, /ˈmoθo/

Noun

mozo (plural mozos)

1. 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

• zoom

Noun

mozo

1. moose

Alternative forms

• moço (obsolete)

Etymology

Uncertain origin, probably ultimately identical with muchacho (cf. mocho), or from Latin musteus (“must-like, of new wine, fresh”), from musteum, from mustum. Compare Portuguese moço.

Pronunciation

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /ˈmoθo/
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /ˈmoso/

Noun

mozo m (plural mozos, feminine moza, feminine plural mozas)

1. boy, lad
2. servant, waiter, steward, manservant (in feminine: girl, maidservant)
3. cat

Adjective

mozo (feminine singular moza, masculine plural mozos, feminine plural mozas)

1. young; unmarried