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da·go    Audio Help   [dey-goh] Pronunciation Key
–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]
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–noun
Danish name of Hiiumaa.
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da·go also Da·go    Audio Help   (dā'gō)  Pronunciation Key 
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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noun
(ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent [syn: wop] 

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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.]
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