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  2. Category:Italian words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves. As such almost all article titles should be italicized (with Template:Italic title). Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase. See as example Category:English words.

  3. Italian profanity - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Wop - Wikipedia

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    Another backronym is that wop stands for "working on pavement", based on a stereotype that Italian immigrants and Italian-American men typically do manual labor such as road-building. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Turning acronyms into words did not become common practice until after World War II, accelerating along with the growth of the US space-program and ...

  5. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2013 December 17

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    Obviously, this form is not Sicilian but might be a borrowing into it and other dialects from Neapolitan. As I shallowly know Naples has no less bandit reputation than Sicily and Neapolitan is a source for many slang words in Italian.--Lüboslóv Yęzýkin 20:07, 17 December 2013 (UTC) Thanks.

  6. Category:Italian slang - Wikipedia

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  7. Guido (slang) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Pope used vulgar Italian word to refer to LGBT people ...

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    Pope Francis used a highly derogatory term towards the LGBT community as he reiterated in a closed-door meeting with Italian bishops that gay people should not be allowed to become priests ...

  9. Color symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Color symbolism in art, literature, and anthropology is the use of color as a symbol in various cultures and in storytelling.There is great diversity in the use of colors and their associations between cultures [1] and even within the same culture in different time periods. [2]