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dagoes

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da⋅go

  [dey-goh]
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–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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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.]
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