enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Category:Italian slang - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Italian_slang

    About Wikipedia; Contact us; Special pages; Contribute Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file; Search. ... Pages in category "Italian slang"

  3. Guido (slang) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_(slang)

    Guido (/ ˈ ɡ w iː d oʊ /, Italian:) is a North American subculture, slang term, and ethnic slur referring to working-class urban Italian-Americans. The guido stereotype is multi-faceted. At one point, the term was used more generally as a disparaging term for Italians and people of Italian descent.

  4. Italian profanity - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_profanity

    The Italian language is a language with a large set of inflammatory terms and phrases, almost all of which originate from the several dialects and languages of Italy, such as the Tuscan dialect, which had a very strong influence in modern standard Italian, and is widely known to be based on Florentine language. [1]

  5. Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linguistic_onomatopoeias

    Because of the nature of onomatopoeia, there are many words which show a similar pronunciation in the languages of the world. The following is a list of some conventional examples: The following is a list of some conventional examples:

  6. Rhyming slang - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming_slang

    Rhyming slang is also used and described in a scene of the 1967 film To Sir, with Love starring Sidney Poitier, where the English students tell their foreign teacher that the slang is a drag and something for old people. [34] The closing song of the 1969 crime caper, The Italian Job, ("Getta Bloomin' Move On" a.k.a. "The Self Preservation ...

  7. Terrone - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrone

    Terrone (Italian pronunciation: [terˈroːne]; plural terroni, feminine terrona) [a] is an epithet of the Italian language with which the inhabitants of Northern and Central Italy depreciatively or jokingly indicate the inhabitants of Southern Italy. Southern Italians, in turn, call Italians from the northern regions polentoni.

  8. Barese dialect - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barese_dialect

    In the Italian cinema of the Commedia all'Italiana, Barese has been made famous by actors such as Lino Banfi, Sergio Rubini, Gianni Ciardo, Dino Abbrescia, and Emilio Solfrizzi. There are also numerous films shot exclusively in Bari dialect: amongst the most notable is LaCapaGira which was admired by film critics at the Berlin International ...

  9. Old-School Slang Words That Really Deserve a Comeback

    www.aol.com/old-school-slang-words-really...

    Nothing explains exactly what we want to say in a more confusing, nonsensical way than good old slang words. ... Wikipedia. 1. Giggle water. Used to describe: Any alcoholic drink, ...