muso
muso noun: a pretentious music fan. Also the diminutive of musician.
Noun
muso (plural musos)
- A pretentious music fan.
- 'This is how we do it in Lisbon,' he warns with gruff Portuguese annunciation. Immediately the intimate and packed crowd of party-loving young musos submit to the almighty bass quake, squawking synthesisers and furious thrusting rhythms of kuduro, the latest imported urban dance flavour.2008 March 23, Jaimie Hodgson, “When kuduro came to town”, in The Observer, →ISSN
- It is a badge of pride for musos to say that Spotify’s machine-learning algorithms – when you listen to a track and it recommends things you might also like – don’t cover their cosmopolitan taste.2018 October 5, Ben Beaumont-Thomas, Laura Snapes, “Has 10 years of Spotify ruined music?”, in The Guardian
Also used as
muso is also the diminutive of musician.
Forms of muso
| plural | musos |
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Origin of muso
From musician + -o (“diminutive suffix”).
Words that rhyme with muso
Questions about muso
- What does muso mean?
- Muso means a pretentious music fan.
- What part of speech is muso?
- Muso is a noun.
- What is the plural of muso?
- The plural of muso is musos.
Words near muso in the dictionary
Source and license
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