# gonzo
## English
### Etymology

Coined in 1971 by Boston Globe editor Bill Cardoso. Of uncertain origin; OED proposes Italian gonzo (“dolt”) and / or Spanish ganso (“dolt, goose”). The etymology supplied by Cardoso himself (French gonzeaux) is spurious.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: gŏnʹzō
* (US) IPA: /ˈɡɑnzoʊ/
* (UK) IPA: /ˈɡɒnzəʊ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒnzəʊ
* Homophone: gone-zo

### Adjective

gonzo (comparative more gonzo, superlative most gonzo)
* (journalism) Using an unconventional, exaggerated, and highly subjective style, often when the reporter takes part in the events of the story.
** 1972, Richard Pollack, chapter VI, in Stop the Presses, I Want to Get Off!:I ask Hunter to explain ... Just what is Gonzo Journalism? ... “Gonzo all started with Bill Cardosa, ... after I wrote the Kentucky Derby piece for Scanlan's ... the first time I realized you could write different. And ... I got this note from Cardosa saying, ‘That was pure gonzo journalism!’ ... Some Boston word for weird, bizarre.”
* Unconventional, bizarre, crazy. [from 1974]
** 2007, Mark Dery, The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American culture on the brink‎, page 121:Nicholson’s Torrance is an evil clown ... Appropriately, pop culture has embraced him as a gonzo antihero: Ads for T-shirts emblazoned with the “Here’s Johnny” Nicholson

#### Derived terms

* gone-zo
* gonzoism
* gonzo journalism

### Noun

gonzo (countable and uncountable, plural gonzos)
* Gonzo journalism or a journalist who produces such journalism.
** 2000, Hunter S. Thompson, Douglas Brinkley, Fear and Loathing in America: The brutal odyssey of an outlaw Journalist, 1968–1976:“Unstable” indeed! Those swine: Next year we should demand a gonzo category – or maybe R S should give it. Of course: “The first annual Rolling Stone award for the year's finest example of pure gonzo journalism.”
* (countable) A wild or crazy person.

### References

* ↑ “gonzo, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, April 2013.
* ↑ Hirst, Martin (2004) “What is gonzo? The eymology of an urban legend”, in eprint.uq.edu.au‎ (preprint), Brisbane, QLD, AU: University of Queensland, archived from the original on 2008-04-14
* ↑ John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “gonzo”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

### Further reading

* gonzo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Özgön

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old French gons, from Latin gomphus, from Ancient Greek γόμφος (gómphos), from Proto-Hellenic *gómpʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos. Doublet of golfón.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡon.θo/, [ˈɡonθʊ], (western) [ˈɡonsʊ]
* Hyphenation: gon‧zo

### Noun

gonzo m (plural gonzos)
* hinge
    Synonyms: bisagra f, porlón m

#### Derived terms

* engonzar
* esgonzar

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “gonço”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “gonzo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “gonzo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “gonzo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Italian
### Etymology

Unknown. Some suggest by aphesis from Latin verēcundus (“bashful, shamefaced”, see verecondo and vergogna).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡon.d͡zo/
* Rhymes: -ondzo
* Hyphenation: gón‧zo

### Adjective

gonzo (feminine gonza, masculine plural gonzi, feminine plural gonze)
* stupid, dumb
    Synonyms: babbeo, fesso, grullo, ingenuo, scemo, sciocco, sempliciotto, sprovveduto, stolto, stupido, tonto

### Noun

gonzo m (plural gonzi, feminine gonza)
* simpleton, dolt; dupe
    Synonyms: babbeo, fesso, grullo, ingenuo, minchione, scemo, sciocco, sempliciotto, sprovveduto, stolto, stupido, tonto

#### Descendants

* → English: gonzo
* → French: gonze

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡõ.zu/
* Hyphenation: gon‧zo

### Etymology 1

From Old French gons, from Latin gomphus, from Ancient Greek γόμφος (gómphos), from Proto-Hellenic *gómpʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos.

#### Noun

gonzo m (plural gonzos)
* hinge (device for the pivoting of a door)
    Synonyms: dobradiça, charneira, quício
** 1995, José Saramago, Ensaio sobre a cegueira, Caminho:Esperavam o ruído do portão ao ser aberto, o guincho agudo dos gonzos por untar, […]They waited for the sound of the gate being opened, the shrill squeal of the hinges in need of oil, […]

### Etymology 2

From Italian gonzo.

#### Adjective

gonzo (feminine gonza, masculine plural gonzos, feminine plural gonzas)
* (journalism) gonzo