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In some senses, eye-talian is marked as derogatory, slang, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.
eye-talian
/aɪˈtæljən/
adj 1noun 1
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4ADJ.
little
VERB + EYE-TALIAN
know
EYE-TALIAN + NOUN
girl, phil, submarine, you've
PREP.
about
Definitions
adj
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Italian, usually in reference to an Italian American person or Italian American culture.
No, sir, lose your colonies, and you'd have Eye'''-talian cities without their climate, Eye'''-talian lazaroni without their light hearts to sing over their poverty, (for the English can't sing a bit better nor bull frogs,) and worse than Eye'''-talian eruptions and volcanoes in politics, without the grandeur and sublimity of those in natur'.
"She is brown as a chipmunk, and her eyes is as big and lovin' as them of the little Eye-talian girl you've been talkin' about." "It-talian, not Eye-talian, Phil corrected […]."
noun
1
An Italian, usually an Italian American.
“So, now our Mountaineers have to be playin’ all these Eye-talians?” asked Clyde.
When Sal's "troublemaker," his three-times-daily, pizza-eating and paying customer, demanded that Sal "take down all those 'Eye-talians' on the wall and put up some black brothers," Sal callously replied, "Get your own place and do what you want."
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No, sir, lose your colonies, and you'd have Eye'''-talian cities without their climate, Eye'''-talian lazaroni without their light hearts to sing over their poverty, (for the English can't sing a bit
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"She is brown as a chipmunk, and her eyes is as big and lovin' as them of the little Eye-talian girl you've been talkin' about." "It-talian, not Eye-talian, Phil corrected […]."
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“Hey, Pensiero, ya know whut a Eye-talian submarine sounds like, on dat new sonar?"
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“So, now our Mountaineers have to be playin’ all these Eye-talians?” asked Clyde.
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When Sal's "troublemaker," his three-times-daily, pizza-eating and paying customer, demanded that Sal "take down all those 'Eye-talians' on the wall and put up some black brothers," Sal callously repl
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More than 30 years ago Carroll O'Connor would sit in Archie Bunker's favorite chair and rant about "jungle bunnies" or "chinks" or, "you know, Edith, dem dere Eye-talians."
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