melodic. saluta. I think you forgot one though. Laura Bellusci Also: che si dice ? In Italian, the word marone has a few different meanings. Like a tomato so ripe the skin has split. Her parents were from Sicily. Our ancestors did not lack for colorful expressive phrases that squarely and succinctly hit their intended mark. Where does this come from? In a small pot boil vinegar (3 parts vinegar plus 1 part water) (hai capito) [eye-kaa-PEED], how ya doin? I conclude that faccia tosta (Hard faced, or emboldened person) is the formal Italian phrase, and that this pronunciation is a dialect or local version of that phrase. How to use Italian American in a sentence. Dont forget, the bottles had CORK stoppers in em & he would leave em @ the side door if my Grandmother would miss him. Thanks for the dictionary. Hi! Glad to see this thread is still active. I also remember the coal man w/ the chain drive truck, the junk man w/ the horse (w/ the bells around his belly) cart, the ice man, the eggman (w/ the push cart), all were Italian. (do you) understand? Thisdictionarywill be updated, as it is an ongoing process. I was born in Argentina to Neapolitan parents , the same phenomenon happen there with the Spanish language , the Italian influence created a new idiom called LUNFARDO, What about moo-nates? The immigrants who came to America did not corrupt the official Italian. A complaint. Im Polish and Im writing my thesis on family values and culture of Italian-Americans based on The Sopranos, and this mini-dictionary happened to be really interesting, so thanks a lot for Your effort. Just like your list. Thanks for compiling these phrases to preserve our Italian-American cultural heritage. But I found it delightful to hear Calabrese spoken in Italy among family and friends. Like, You put that cookie (bish-gawt) in your pocket and now its all in moo-nates. what is this? No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the written permission of the copyright holders. I am told that is from the norman influence. Hmm. And is there a word for adopted or adoption? Have you ever considered about adding a little bit more than just Vi ringrazare dal fondo del mio cuore. Just a couple hours ago my Irish nephew called me from upstate New York to ask Uncle Joe, how do you spell Gomba? We both turned on the computers and found HERE that the correct spelling is GOOMBA. is like = chimu ti jett u sangu = we are going to suck your blood malanova mu ti vene = bad things will happen to you! Just a guess your word could possible be a variation of the Italian malandrino which translates in English to wickedscoundrelevil-oneetc. It is important to remember that the dialects were typically handed down orally from one generation to another, as they have been since Roman times. -ge) (vulgar) fart. Stack Commerce, Popular Science, 18 Apr. This was an awesome site to visit as member of the Italian American Social Club of Waldwick New Jersey I recognize almost all of the words and have use them and still use some of them today even though Im third generation American Italian Id love to contribute some more thoughts and an article I wrote about being Italian American and growing up in New Jersey. To me being a female I never lived up to her standards but ya know you cant even please family all the time! this dictionary is very interesting: it shows how lively a language can be and its amazing how people can transform it! I think the spelling of many of the words is up for debate, because they really are primarily spoken. If you want to learn the Italian language, our online Italian translator will help you to perform Italian translation, learn words and phrases, and even become an Italian speaker. Goocutz or googats lterally meaning small cucumber also moron. Start creating a word list or do a quiz! Just Enjoy! Now my grandchildren use this work instead of colandar. If so, do you know what dialect it is? Thank you for all the fractured Italian words. My family immigrated to Boston and Providence!! It could also refer to someone who works very hard and is sweating blood, in reference to hard manual labor. The same reason I cant follow Portugese. Read about the history of Sicily. Italian slang for friend. My Napoletane grandmother grandmother had a good response when I asked her whats for dinner. [FWEE-dee-DOW-goo], gabbadost/gab a tost hardhead (capa dura/capa tosta), gabbagul/gabbagool type of meat/food/idiot/fool (capicola/capocollo/capacolla) [gaa-baa-GOOL], gabbaruss/gab a russ redhead (capo rosso) [gaa-baa-ROOS], gabbadeegats/capa di cazz ball face (capo di cazzo) [gaa-baa-dee-GATS], gabish?/capish?/gabisc? Anyone ever hear of Schreetz? Oh, and Sicily was, like Naples, part of (classical) Greece for centuries. [aa-faa-NAA-boe-laa], agita heartburn/indigestion (acidit) [AA-jih-tuh], ammonini! She called it a coolie. lets go! Start creating a word list or do a quiz! Could be check dice or in Neapolitan it would sound phonetically more like che deesh ? The real word would be chiacchierone (pronounced KYA-kye-RONE). LOL, my mother used to say that all the time too as well as ti potza schiatta la vasheeg( vescica may your bladder burst) and potz yetta la cheed ( la aceto may you vomit vinegar). Its used when something bad has happened. "Collins Italian Dictionary 2nd Edition 2005 HarperCollins Publishers 2005", Access desktop version One with salami pepperoni and cheese inside (like calzone) and one with no filling, just fried with tomato sauce on top. My grandmother (Brooklyn from Caserta, near Naples) used to refer to children as quierdooday (phonetically) and not the standard Italian bambino. would never say as much in Italian he always told me in English lol but a little more picturesque that I could understand ! Thanks. Probably because they didnt get very much meat. Anyone ever hear of the word yachetone (spelling??) I have long since left Long Island and after my son asked me for the umpteenth time what maron meant, I had to confess it was just an expression I picked up. Still use some of these to teach my own kids now I have more! scoom-bah-dee (ashamed, embarrased) We have made every effort to mark as such all words which we believe to be trademarks. Your mother would say, Its cold out, make sure you wear your coo-pa-LEEN today., [] salut (salute), bacouz (bagno), e la lista continua, se volete, qui. & 2nd. Grazie a tutti coloro che sono venuti prima di noi e non dimenticate mai da dove vengono! Could Jane be a bastardized version of Gianni, as in lets go, Johnny? I know d and t sounds can overlap, as well as b and p, and c and g. When I was young, I thought pasta was BOSS-ta! Anyone know what that means? Out of the ordinary: ways of saying that something is unusual (2), a circular decoration for the head, usually made of gold and jewels (= precious stones), and worn by a king or queen at official ceremonies. Neapolitans are often blonde and blue-eyed or even red headed very often, too. You will particularly hear these slang words in areas such as Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx, NY as well as Boston and Philly. 'pa pdd chac tc-bd bw hbr-20 hbss lpt-25' : 'hdn'">, Clear explanations of natural written and spoken English. (a fa Napoli) [faa-NAA-boe-laa], fatti gatti due!/vatoli vatoli due! The pronunciations were dead on. i zuddicci I have no idea, possibly i sudici (the dirty ones), a way to call rats? Italian-English Dictionary - Cambridge Dictionary Catalonia called Alt Catalan. Gumba Italian was the lingua Franca irrigardlass of national origen. Sounded something like parc-a ma-zel-ea usually said after someone was being stupid. My father used these words all time. We should also like to make it clear that the presence of a word in the dictionary, whether marked or unmarked, in no way affects its legal status as a trademark. Mostly Italian, Irish, Yiddish, and Spanish. It was the meat on my plate which I did not like to eat. There was another group of words that were interchangeable. do you know me?/do you know who I am? I have respect for language that is local to a geographical area any where in the world. ), i-malano-miau! His reaction was What? So many of the comparisons here to standard Italian are really comparisons between two different dialects. where? My Dad used to have a saying and im trying to get spelling. do you feel hungry?/are you hungry? You have words using the letter K in it. This word was used a lot in my Sicilian household, miss-keen-ah or mischina..basically a pathetic person. I recently ran across an Italian whose last name is Stucatz. Audio and video pronunciations. Growing up in Bensonhurst, 2nd generation Italian this was correct Italian dialect to us. I dont speak Italian so I dont know what the words really mean but I have always assumed that the moda (pronounced mode-uh} is from the word mode, a way or method of doing somethong. Other favorites: Oofah!, Meenchia!, Strunz. Funny to see how similar the American Italian I heard growing up is to the Northeast version! My paternal grandmother and her family were gli stranieri, immigrants from Provincia d Avellino in Campania (Neapolitans). She meant sloppy and cheap. In the Florentine dialect (now official Italian), the word for table is tavola. It was known as a coolie in our family too, My grandmother was from Abbruza and also settled in Milford MA also yup its a coolie, could someone PLEASE help me with a saying my grandma used to say meaning ya right, ill believer it when I see it ( or tomorrow never comes) i know I am very very off on the spelling mo mo caw gaw . Anyone have any clue? ITALIANOS who tried but could never make it with their Merican interpretation of a Beautiful Language which blends itself in dialectical differences but still document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); jeanne (can you belive they named me french instead of Italian lol), Joanne ( grew up in Queens, born in Brooklyn! Oh I totally didnt make that connection to dice. antipaticu. Thats how it sounded when she said it you probably have the spelling right.she would say it playfully not really sure what it means. We use our dialect like we our own language using the language from their town, Gerocarne. when I was a kid, I used to joke that there must be something about living closer to the Equator making you drop the endings off words. Hello I am a Canadian, born in north western Quebec, in 1954. [aa-WOON-duh CHOON-kuh? Steve, I believe Sciacca Don could either be Sciacca Donna or Sciaccadana both meaning from Sciacca(?) or anything else you want. CIAO e. TUTTO POSTO. As I understand it, a person describing another as a morto di fame is not wishing for that person to die from hunger. sharing! Any thoughts?? Love this!! Also, what about un-gwike-ya? Che ma di ma di (if che is pronounced kay ) may also mean what of it? Oxford Languages and Google - Italian | Oxford Languages A woga a woga Anyway, Italians add the suffix anooch onto the end of a persons name, just for fun, such as Bob-a-nooch (Tom and Bob are best for it, but anooch can be put after any name, usually a males). It is very distinct from Italy. Vinnie from Buffalo & now in Cincinnati. Southern Italians leave of the initial hard-g or hard-k sound, so English ice is modern Italian ghiaccio but is pronounced yaccio. In other words the car is a bone crusher cuz it bounces around so much. has anyone head the phrase pitchada pepe? These Italian profanities expand on the ever increasing resources of colloquial language found on this silly website, which includes British Slang, Australian Slang, Irish Slang, Russian, French . Figs were jarred and used to make delicious Xmas and Easter cookies! And, hey, the British make fun of us..along with the Welch, Irish, Scottish) Oh, and everyone corrected the Hebrew I was learning. Never found what that place was all about back then, but now? Yes I remember grandma told us about the pissa pot.when we had no money she used to say we dont have a pot to piss in.still dont. American Italianis an Italian-American pidgin languagedeveloped in the early 20th century by Italian immigrants settling in American cities and metropolitanareas, especially in New York and New Jersey. dialect). The language of those in power is always seen as standard. After all, the Florentine language itself was only a dialect until it became elevated to official national status. As a child while eating I would be asked did you eat your chicche? Or eat your chicche!. saying is used to mean, pronounced Not Italian at all. scasciata I believe translates to ruined or destroyed or broken down scasciabanga applied as you say to a jalopie could be an American-Italian word. I cant find the word WYUN pronounced WHY-OON anywhere. The languagewas prominent in United States cities on the East Coast, such as Newark, Paterson, New York City (especially Manhattan and Brooklyn), the cities of Long Island,Philadelphia, Chicago, and Boston, but I am finding that it was spoken very similarly in the other regions of the US as well aspockets of Canada. Does anyone know? A complete dictionary search. Or, mezza stunard; scumbari; gatzee (maybe from Yiddish) and chiaccheressa (chatterbox) something I was often accused of being. place in drainer I think many of them are from Sicilian and/or Calabrese dialects.very different from Napolitan dialect. Italian keyboard to type special characters and punctuation marks. This is the official dictionary and hub of American Italian (containing the approximate spellings, meanings, etymology, and pronunciations), so it is not lost forever. Italians are the descendents of Germanic (Indo-European) tribes ultimately, from the Ukraine, just like the Greeks, Germans, Slavs, Celts. Jeanne-are you my long-lost cousin from Waterbury,ct?? One thing to keep in mind is that there are at least three origins of the Italian language; the proper Italian, dialect specific to each region/municipality, and the bastardization of dialect we usually call Italian-American; which is the subject of this thread. ), They say it means, Drink to your health for a hundred years.. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. (non fai scumbari) [NOO-moo fai shkoom-baa-REE], oobatz/patz crazy person (un pazzo/u pazzu) [oo-BAATZ], paesan fellow Italian countryman (paesano) [pai-ZAAN], pasta vasul Italian soup (pasta fagioli) [pasta-faa-ZOOL], pastin small, star-shaped pasta (pastina) [paa-STEEN], pizzagain Italian meat pie (pizzagaina) [pizza-GAIN], pizzolino afternoon nap (pisolino) [peetz-o-LEE-no], provalon type of cheese (provalone) [pro-v-LOAN], pucchiach/bucchiach bch (pucchiacha) [poo-KYAAK], rigott Italian cheese (ricotta) [ree-GAUWT], salud/salut be in good health (salute) [zaa-LOOD], shape-la-tass shape of a cup (shape of la tazza) [shape-aa-laa-taatz], scharol/scarol escarole/money (scarola) [shkaa-ROAL], schif/shkeeve to be disgusted by something (schifo) [shkeef], schifozz disgusting thing (schifosa) [shkee-VOATZ], scorchamend/scocciament a pain in the ass (scocciamento) [scorch-aa-MEND], scoochi-di-bandanz a real pain [scooch-ee-dee-baan-DANZ], scustumad stupid person (scostumato) [skoo-stoo-MAAD], sciumara river (fiumara) [shoo-MAA-raa], scobendo to sweep the floor (scopare) [sko-BEN-doe], scubata/scupata get laid (scopato) [SKOO-baa-taa], sculabast pasta strainer (scola la pasta) [skoo-laa-BAAST], scungill/scongigl cooked snail (sconciglio) [skoon-JEEL], sedeti/sededi sit down (sedeteti) [SEH-daa-dee], sesenta fame?
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