Lezzo

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -É›zəʊ

Origin

From a shortening and alteration of les(bian) + the Australian diminutive suffix -o.

Full definition of lezzo

Noun

1. (Australia, slang) A lesbian.
• 1984, Barry Dickins, The Crookes of Epping, Pascoe Publishing, ISBN 0959210431, page 26,She was also a lezzo.
• 1986, Angelo Loukakis, Vernacular Dreams, University of Queensland, ISBN 0702220256, page 136,There is too many hippies and lezzos riding around on bikes these days already.
• a1997, from The Picture, quoted in Jill Julius Matthews, Sex in Public: Australian Sexual Cultures, Allen & Unwin (1997), ISBN 1864480491, page 4,Wot's going down? Hot lezzo love-ins, that's wot . . . The Bisexual revolution has begun. "Lesbian chic" is born—and I can't tell you what GOOD NEWS this is for us.
• 2006, Craig Price, Birth of the Ecowarriors, Lulu Press, Inc., ISBN 0646465015, page 68,"Piss off Greek girl," he bluffed. "Go find your lezzo friend."