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Dago - 6 dictionary results

da⋅go

[dey-goh]
–noun, plural -gos, -goes. (often initial capital letter) 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

Dag⋅ö

[dahg-œ]
–noun
Danish name of Hiiumaa.

Hii⋅u⋅maa

[hee-oo-mah]
–noun
an island in the Baltic, W of and belonging to Estonia. 373 sq. mi. (965 sq. km).
Danish, Dagö.
da·go also Da·go   (dā'gō)   
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.]

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.]

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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