Majordomo (may-juhr-DO-mo)

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Majordomo (may-juhr-DO-mo)

Have not heard this for a LONG time.


PRONUNCIATION:
(may-juhr-DO-mo)

MEANING:
noun:
1. Someone whose job is to make arrangements or organize things for another.
2. A steward or butler.


ETYMOLOGY:
From Spanish mayordomo (butler, main servant), from Latin major + domus (house).


USAGE:
"If there hadn't been a Saudi majordomo to come and collect us, we would have been in limbo -- a pair of single women wandering the airport with no man to get them out, trapped forever like Tom Hanks in movie The Terminal."
Maureen Dowd; A Girls' Guide to Saudi Arabia; Vanity Fair (New York); Aug 2010.


:floweram:A THOUGHT FOR TODAY::floweram:
Don't wait for the Last Judgement. It takes place every day. -Albert Camus, writer and philosopher (1913-1960)

[Hobbyist]

I remember my nooob days on the net.. I got myself on a privacy issue related email list by stumbling through some set of instructions to send an email with subject set to "subscribe" or whatever it was... I couldn't figure out how to get off.. there were 20 emails a day full of nutbar rants.. I must have sent 100 emails _screaming_ "take me off this list!!!"... That will _always_ be the real meaning of majordomo

http://www2.essex.ac.uk/cs/documentation/majordomo/default.asp

[penny]

Yes, Hobbyist, I thought it was a computer term, that thankfully I don't see anymore. Now if only Majordomo had taken 404 along with him.

[Dude]

I really thought it was a word David Bowie made up for one of his songs.

or was that Major Tom???