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Audio Help [dey-goh] Pronunciation Key –noun, plural -gos, -goes. (often initial capital letter
) Slang: Disparaging and Offensive.
) Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. | a person of Italian or sometimes Spanish origin or descent. |
[Origin: 1715–25, Americanism; alter. of Diego < Sp: a given name
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n. pl. da·gos also Da·gos or da·goes also Da·goes Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for an Italian, Spaniard, or Portuguese. [Alteration of Spanish Diego, a given name, from Latin Iacōbus, Jacob.] |
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dago
1823, from Sp. Diego "James," orig. used of Sp. or Port. sailors on Eng. or Amer. ships, by 1900 it had broadened to include non-sailors and shifted to mean chiefly "Italian."
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| (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent [syn: wop] |
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Dago
Da"go\ (d[=a]"g[-o]), n.; pl. Dagos (-g[=o]z). [Cf. Sp. Diego, E. James.] A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent. [U. S.]| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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