majo1
/ˈmadʒəʊ/(also majoe)
noun
A West Indian shrub, Picramnia antidesma (family Simaroubaceae); (also) a medicinal preparation of the bark of this plant, formerly used to treat fevers, venereal diseases, and colic (more fully majo bitters).
Origin
Early 18th century; earliest use found in Henry Barham (?1670–1726), botanist. Origin uncertain; compare Gullah Majo a personal name. Probably ultimately of West African origin; perhaps compare Ga ṇmãtšu herb used by a fetish priest.
majo2
/ˈmɑːhəʊ/Now historical
noun
In Spain and Spanish-speaking countries: a man who dresses gaily, a dandy; an ostentatious young man; (originally) one from a lower social class (obsolete ).
Origin
Late 18th century; earliest use found in 1st Earl of Malmesbury (1746–1820), diplomatist. From Spanish majo inhabitant of one of the working-class areas of Madrid, of uncertain origin.
- longways
- long weekend
- long-winded
- long-windedly
- long-windedness
- longwise
- longwool
- lonicera
- lonning
- Lonsdale belt
- loo
- looder
- loodering
- looey
- loofah
- looie
- look
- look a fright
- look after
- look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves
- lookahead
- lookalike
- look-and-say
- look as if butter wouldn't melt in one's mouth
- look as if one has seen a ghost