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Melo

name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A city in Uruguay, capital of the department of Cerro Largo
Noun
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of melodrama. British, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, informal, uncountable

    "Bar burlesque & Penleyan comedy I am becoming tolerant of this insipid British drama. Even bad melo doesn’t cause me to vomit as it did of old."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Perhaps after French mélo.

Etymology 2

From Portuguese melro (“blackbird”), similar to Spanish mirlo.

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