Occasionally, the terminal consonant of the clipped form is doubled for clarity of meaning or pronunciation, as with uggo and doggo. It is often appended to clipped or elided forms of longer words, as with ambo and parmo. o generally does not change the meaning of the word or name but only makes it more colloquial, as with cheapo and Jacko.
He gave me a lot of pi-jaw about slacking and then invited me to tea. kid + -o → kiddo ugly + -o → uggoĪdrian thought it worth while to try out his new slang. A colloquializing suffix, typically appended to names, abbreviations of long words, or substantive uses of adjectives.Perhaps from a special use of the interjection O, oh and/or perhaps from o ( “ one ” ), from Middle English o, oo, variant of a, on, oon, an ( “ one ” ).
( UK, General Australian ) IPA ( key): /əʊ/.
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