Subject to revision whenever the mood strikes me. If you have something you’d like to add or suggest or comment on, gohere(where you can also see what others have suggested). Most of this usage isnotfor polite company. Formilder slang and idiom, see this page. ...
*dago, guinea, wop and greaseball are all derogatory terms for Italians The original quote, with slang Johnny Fontane: Oh, Godfather, I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. Don Corleone:You can act like a man! What's the matter with you? Is this how you turned out...
Italians are actually the largest group of non-Germans in Germany after the Turkish, and there was even a relatively small group of ItalianGastarbeiter(guest workers) brought into the country in the 1950s. Germans have loved going to Italy since the days of Goethe, so it’s only natural t...
Hampton Wick - dick or prick (penis - unusually both words of the slang, hampton and wick, have become popular single-word slang terms, and have spawned secondary rhyming slang terms - such as Lionel Hampton - incidentally Hampton Wick is an up-market riverside 'village' area in the SW ...
1977 Maledicta 1 Summer 13: A person that you don’t like is often described in terms of various bodily parts or excretions: [...] If cowardly as well, he is a piss-willie or has shit in his blood. have shit on one’s liver (also have dirt on one’s liver, have shit on the...
However, for some, saying that a place is four blocks away means it is four houses down, rather than four streets over. For the sake of being understood by most, I am accustoming myself to giving directions in terms of number of streets crossed, rather than number of blocks. I also ...
We have to finish on a high. The cockneys have given us some wonderful things; pie and mash, Danny Dyer and, of course, cockney rhyming slang. Rhyming slang is an art form in which you replace words with phrases or terms that rhyme. So, for instance, “Army and navy” well you're...
1931 A. Hardin ‘Volstead Eng.’ in AS VII:2 87: Terms used for intoxicating liquor: Nigger gin. 1949 Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). 1979 Maledicta III:2 169: nigger gin n Synthetic gin. 1985 T.J. McCoy‘Alakali Pete Hits Town’ in Cannon Cowboy Poetry 19: I was suckled ...