My mother was 100% Sicilian and she used many of these words. Since the 1980s, however, it has seen a steady decline in the number of speakers, as earlier generations of Italian Americans die out and the language is less often spoken . ventra? He was from Rome.. My grandma used to say fazzaneegol ,I spelled it out how it sounded when she said it) for basil.she was from avellino . Mom would serve pizza frite on our birthdays. Conversations in my childhood home were held in a cacophony of English, Italian, Abruzzese and Napuletano. This is great, very comprehensive! ). 7 years in Brooklyn was an education for which I should have gotten 2 years of college credits, that is after the first year of shock and acclimating. the village Italians. [maa-ROAWN-aa-MEE-uh], menzamenz half and half (mezza mezza) [mehnz-AA-mehnz], mezzamort half-dead (mezzo morto) [METZA-moart], mortadell Italian sausage/loser (mortadella) [moart-aa-DELL], mortadafam really hungy/starving (morta da fame) [moart-aa-daa-faam], muccatori tissue (fazzoletto) [moo-kaa-TOE-ree], musciad mushy (musciata/ammosciato) [moo-SHYAAD], moosh-miauw very mushy (musciata miau) [moosh-meow], muzzarell/muzzadell Italian cheese (mozzarella) [mootz-aa-DELL], medigan non-Italian american/Italian who has lost his roots (americano) [meh-dee-GAAN], napoleedan/napuletan Neapolitan (napolitano) [naa-paa-lee-DAAN], numu fai shcumbari! Also, if it is a fork, it means it will be a woman. annu. Best wishes, What the fk are you doing over there? I feel like I did this site a favor. For example gar-bi-che (for garbage) yard-a (for yard) and bassa-men-to for basement). Search Italian expressions in the Italian-English Linguee dictionary and in 1,000,000,000 translations. (how are you doing? Hope this helped. iPhone. I remember a lot of them, and if interest is still here, I can post them. I was called testaduda, hard headed, as a stubborn child. My dad was calabrese and mom was aviglanese. or Doggone!!!! !, P.S. Does anyone know the Gabbagul term for behind? I believe the dictionary is meant to give all possible spellings, whether correct or incorrect, that were commonly used, especially since many words were made-up or combined English and Italian. Very common phrase. It is autonomous but a territory of Italy. After much research, I found we also had a lot of Yiddish in our daily language. In some areas its used to describe someone unusually skinny, pedophilia, and I've even heard homosexual. (It may not be right, but remember, were talkin dialect here.). Of or relating to Italy or its people, language, or culture. It keeps these languages living. I am interested in your one-woman show. Somaterita The va, fa, and culo were drawn out with the cu in culo given an extra emphasis. Yet their ancestry and history is not the same as England. [caal-uh-BRAYZ], calamad fried squid (calamari) [caal-uh-MAAD], capidan/capitan captain (capitano/capitan) [caap-ee-DAAN], cendann/cent ann a hundred years (cento anni); Note: said before a toast [chen-DAAN], che cozz? 1. Mostly Italian, Irish, Yiddish, and Spanish. Im from Chicago and my mothers family came from Naples. In my house it was scula pasta, and the pasta sounded more like basta. My best guess is that this is a variation of the official Italian sposata which refers to the marital status of a female. 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. The posters description is more appropriately linked to the official Italian word stonato which has probably evolved into Italian dialect along the line of stonato > stunatu > stunadu > stunad (Ital. I have heard that word countless times growing up. Im glad you mentioned Staten Island. (capisci?) Places like Fondi, Itri, Montecalvo, Raviscanina. so when they say a fess e soreta they are saying to the fool that is your sister which is still cold. = Its like having my grandmother here with me. Then, after high school and college Italian, I learned about Professor Cipolla, of New Yorks John Hopkins University, who leads Arba Sicula, a (fa ti cazzi tuoi) [FAA-tee-GAA-tee-doo-yay], fattu napiridu I farted [FAA-too-naa-pee-REE-doo] (ho fatto napiridu), ffangul! Where does this come from? Also, ci makes more sense here. I know this thread is about Italian slang and Im getting off topic here, but Im interested to know about these terms as although my family is unsure about its heritage, were pretty sure were Italian for a variety of reasons. My parents teased me when I was little by saying the biangolin man left me at the wrong house. Trying to get a spelling and meaning for ga gatz or just gatz. Also: che si dice ? It is like I want to preserve this language. That is an easy one- the root word is aspettarethe Italian verb to wait. I sounded like (fah -vote) If anyone can please tell me what the real word(s) are and what it means I would really appreciate it. After a little research in Garzantis Italian Thesarus and commensurate with Marks explanation of o sometimes becoming u and t becoming d south of Rome I believe that in spusada we are likely dealing with a variant of the Italian spossato indicating a now weak or spent person.lacking in vigor..In the context I have heard what sounds something like that used that would be about right.all worn out might be another way to state the case in American English. Top 5 sayings, I heard so much of from my angry all the time dad. Another she used to say sounded like grah-NOOD-oo, but I think I found cornuto on that one. My mom always said, Companys coming, whenever someone dropped a spoon on the floor. Saluti! Anyone ever heard the term ska-sha-BONG to mean a jalopie or crappy car? I know diablo = devil, but not what the miz refers to. Thanks. They never say la its always just a. La Mal Ladrino who steals the cheese. I didnt hear all of the words that you did, but some of them like gumba, basanagol, scadol, and statazeet. lets go! How about these: I too have heard this, or a variation of this phrase. Thats strange- because my Sicilian relatives are real light- with blue -green eyes. Where I went to high school on Long Island, it was the same thing. Verbix: verbs conjugation & Italian-English translation. Its nice to hear someone speak New York again as well as Italian slang! It contains over 95638 terms and 212602 translations in both English and Italian and continues to grow and improve. Possible from man done gone One possibility. Provolone was Pruvalone , basil Basanicol. Y O exactly as the two letters Y and O (not yo). Italian slang for friend. It is very distinct from Italy. You can feed this entry. You got it 100+% right, Manage a zutagil = Darn the mouse. My father use to say to me there are two types of people in this world, Italians and those who want to be. This is awesome, like a blast from the past miss my italian relatives, all long gone now. They come from Campania. Only he called it Biangoline [pronounced Beeahn-go-leen] , In my town, Dunmore, pa, it was referred to as LUNA. Indisputably they were hard workers as a rule and the vast majority usually looked to no one to pick up the burden of feeding themselves and their families. When we got too loud, my dad would say, with a rising inflection (and some frustration), Stai zitto!. If you have played this game, shout out. I should have written: Ce ne dobbiamo andare. Thanks. ], bacous/bacouz bathroom (backhouse) [buh-KOWZ], basanagol/basanicol basil (basilico) [baa-zaa-naa-GOAL], bash/basc down/downstairs (bascia) [baash], bada bing! In italian you write: Ce ne dobbiama andare. al of them are correct and all italian families talk like that. looking for spelling for a phrase that was said to wish someone another hundred years. what a shame! u Zi. amore a prima vista exp. It is more or less the same in Spanish and French. My grandpa always pronounces it cooloo. I have no idea if this is a standard Gabbagul word or if its just because he never learned to speak Italian. Thats the way my Dad (Elmont, LI by way of Lower Manhattan) pronounced it and the only way my brother and I know how to say it, There are many instances where southern Italian dialects substitute the sound [b] for [p] and [d] for [t], in addition to the vowel [u] for [o]. Anybody ever hear that word, maybe know the dialect, Im intrigued. When I hear southern dialect spoken I feel it in the heart and in my memory. Or, browse the Cambridge Dictionary index. A complaint. I guess yachetone is midway between english and italian! If so, do you know what dialect it is? Think of it somewhat like Hawaii and the US in that Hawaii also has its own history different from mainland US. Thanks! Ralphie. Unless it depends on the region. Offline pronunciation and translate any sentences. That way, you're not constantly switching between two languages in your head. I grew up this Italian Way and I sing it from my Italian Heart everytime i perform at my Shows. (che cazzo fai?) The way Americans heard it and reproduced it furtherly distorted the Italian dialect pronunciation. Its like nails on a chalk board when I hear people say man-i-cot-i, or bis-cot-i, rick-cotta, or pros-cute-oh. So where I have a G, may be a C, etc. For the ones performing professional translations from Italian to . But, I do enjoy learning more and more about Italian people and their languages and traditions. I tried learning Italian and I realized that the pronunciations didnt seem correct. adj. You meant to say, Were (we are) Italians not Russians. See how easy it is for words to get misspelled. Hi I am Roman but my family is from the south. Example sentences from real language to show how the word is used. damnit (madonna) [maa-ROAN] its up in the list. i am in Rhode Island, we come from between Rome and Naples. Our house house was always filled with people, half, of whom played the guitar, mandolin, piano, accordion, while the other half had beautiful operatic voices. Morto di fame does not have to mean someone who is literally starving. YouTube.com/MoeBellaGloria. Of course, none of my medigan teachers knew what I was saying! 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. Translate Italian to English online | Translate.com !Thanks to Tony Soprano, my 16 year old thinks its so cool to say gabbagulto my mothers dismay. Italian Slang Dictionary A. accidente m. nothing, zip; (lit. I thought Anyone ever hear the word spusada? Ok, got it! What the hell did you pay for that? Another popular phrase that I grew up with was to say when seeing someone, Wai-i-o? (Literally pronounce, Y-E-O). Mort de da fam. She was napolitano we lived on long island. I cant believe how much influence the old people had on me. Stack Commerce, Popular Science, 18 Apr. She called it a coolie. It is a language that should not be forgotten. where does it hurt? [maa-KAY-quest], maddiul/mariul fool/rascal (mariolo) [maa-dee-OOL], maliocch the evil eye (malocchio) [maal-YOAK], mamaluke idiot/fool (mamalucco) [maa-maa-LOUK], mannaggia damn/cursing (male ne aggia/male ne abbia) [MAA-NAA-juh], mannaggia dial curse the devil (male ne aggia il diavolo) [MAA-NAA-juh-dee-owl], mannaggia la mort cursing death (male ne aggia la morta) [MAA-NAA-juh-dee-owl], mannaggia la miseria cursing misery (male ne aggia la miseria) [MAA-NAA-juh-MEE-seh-ree-uh], manigott italian pasta (manicotti) [maa-NEE-gauwt], mapeen/mopeen/mappin napkin/towel (moppina) [maa-PEEN], maranad marinara sauce (marinara) [maa-raa-NAAD], maronna mia! I use scola a pasta all the time. Where did they go? It would be said as a greeting while pinching someones cheek. I think it was a fast food place. skee-votesI wonder if thats where the term: it skeeves me comes from. Another one I hear is shah-quad (phonetic spelling), which means (or so Im told) all crooked or messy. 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. Sciabo/sciaba = bland.. Ya gotta know dat we wuz all First generation,not like the WANNABE Wonderful! This site starts at the very beginning of the dictionary, and makes me scroll down through the entire comments section. We had two kinds of fried pizza. I recognize many words my parents use to say. Will credit this site for the help. Meaning, Mother Mary. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. thank you. American. nervy. Basta e Chito Enough chatter already and be quiet. However, from what I am reading here, high school Italian would not have done me much good in talking to real people. What am I doing wrong? We played Brisco and Scoppa too and we learned all the tricky ways of cheating and signaling your partner too. Have you ever heard the phrases, Mangiese la canne (May you be eaten by dogs) or Mangiese la zudicce (May you be eaten by rats). (hai capito) [eye-kaa-PEED], how ya doin? It is an awesome Italian/Italian-American networking site. Just the thoughts of someone who grew up speaking dialect first, and later learned the official Italian (Florentine) at university. Most of the words on here are familiar to me also. do you feel hungry?/are you hungry? When my mother used to get really pod, shed say something like this: Fungool tha-ya de momeda. Jersey, and we had the guy who brought the bleach, too. [] ancestry, thanks to my beloved maternal grandmother, but most of my day to day life was filled with Italian-American words and traditions.) ACIDOAH-CHEE-DOE=ACID STOMACH Me and my buddies here in South Philly are always talkin bout these here things and this lines up all kinds of stuff. They tell me that the dialects are dying out, and that everyone studies official Italian today, and that it is inappropriate to use a dialect with a total stranger. May I suggest that an alternate pronunciation for provolone (especially auricchio) would be Bruva lune. I studied French, Italian and Spanish. As we try to make it easy for you to translate into Italian the English words and expressions, you are given the possibility to see synonyms of a word, conjugate it and obtain the word pronunciation, or even add another meaning to the English-Italian dictionary . My mom used to sing this to us as kids and then we used to sing it too. Im pretty sure it is ba and not ma though. . [way-goom-BAH], ufratu your brother (il fratello/tuo fratello) [oo-FRAA-too], umbriag/umbriacc/umbriago intoxicated (ubriaco) [oom-bree-YAAG], usorda your sister (la sorella/tua sorella) [oo-SOAR-daa], vaffangul!/baffangul!/ f you! Second, each person had a different influence from English, and that also makes it different, with the result that the dialect spoken in the US obviously differs in some things with the same dialect spoken in Southern Italy. ) or Sicilan or half and half. Here is my best guess The underlying form in official Italian is likely andiamoci (let us go! Both of my moms parents were right off of the boat, as they would sayand the words and phrases shown above were exactly how everyone spoke in that town at that time.it brings back fond memories! A complete dictionary search. Hence the word which you are referring to is most likely a variation of the official Italian spostata which means exactly what you said in your post. 121 Italian Swear Words, Phrases, Curses, Insults, Slang Anyone know what the word camma-nooch means in The Godfather? SILLILY | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary However, I can assure you that (1) no, this is not an attempt to Americanize the words and (2) this tendency to truncate an unstressed vowel at the end of the word is not unique to any dialect. I am now retired in lower Alabama and never hear it here. Italian spelling does not use certain letters such as k and j and w and x. All rights reserved. My grandmother was 2nd generation Sicilian-American. Recall that French domination of southern Italy lasted a long time and resulted in the introduction of new words that were not part of the lexicon of the Florentine dialect. Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al, 16 Apr. n. Italian: Come ti chiami? Strumbalad = mixed up person She didnt know that many of them werent standard English until she moved. The very well known baccaous illustratesindicating back house or out house.not any Continental Italian root to that.purely a creative American Italian expression born of necessity. In a small pot boil vinegar (3 parts vinegar plus 1 part water) Thank you for all the fractured Italian words. Ugh.). why, how beautiful! You have everything she used to say on your list. The site offers two English-Italian dictionaries: The WordReference English-Italian Dictionary My grandparents were from Calabria, and they called a drunk a chi-ca-toon. Im sure its the same word, but what it stems from, I have no idea. 5. Also, coo-pa-LEEN, for a wool hat (ski hat). spelling corrector to know the right spelling of a word. many thanks. [maa-KAY-kauwtz-oo-fai], ma che bell! Visit my page on i-Italy. Ci vediamo (see you later). What about BEE-shi or the long form BEE-sho-LEEN? [aa-WOON-duh], aunda ciunca/awunda chunka? dialect). An estimated 7,500 American companies do business with Italy and more than 1,000 U.S. firms have offices in Italy. Her family was from the Naples area. (che malanova mi hai) [EE-maa-laa-no-mee-auw], lascialui! My parents are from calabria, so I understand a lot of this terms. your a true italian! Im gonna make a guess on this one. Ive never heard anyone else say it: My great uncle was getting out of his car when my brother Steve and boisterous cousin David stuck their heads out the upstairs window and called down, Hey, Uncle Gerry! Uncle Gerry shouted back up, Hey, hey, hey musutu (moo-SOO-too). Ive shared it with my sisters, they love it!!! The Jane that you thought you were hearing was likely the ci at the end (which is pronounced with a ch sound). What you heard is probably a pizza as in would you like a pizza ?The other phrase in standard Italian likely translates into un poco di latto or in Englisha little bit of milk. My family said ah jh na. But the words he used (Forgive Spelling) was Sanguemi sanutsumi sanguemi. Anyone ever hear of Schreetz? [] American Italian: Dictionary | American Italian I grew up in South Philly and was 1st generation American. . We pronounced it: [pee di too]. My Sicilian grandparents arrived in 1901 and lived on E13 St., NYC 20 years later owned a house in the Bronx. Does anybody here know what Im referring to? (They also know nothing about loyalty. I was pretty sure it meant idiot or something like that, but Im startng to suspect its something worse. Luigi. Somehow in any case, rightly or wrongly, it became my own belief that this was not a expression usually used in polite speech. Still use some of these to teach my own kids now I have more! -ge) (vulgar) fart. Im sad that that older generation is dying off, but some of these phrases will never die. pizza shops Were a bunch associated with volunteers plus starting up a whole new system in our local community. 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. Whenever they toast, they say, Salute per cent anni. (Pronounced, salutee per chento anni. (awundi ciunca?) A duva ijiru? That would be used in arguments. faccia tosta > faccia tos(ta) > faccia dos. In our house pizza fritta meant flat pieces of bread or pizza dough fried in hot oil in a skillet and then dusted with sugar as breakfast treat anytime. refer to milk and also maybe shellac or varnish? We lived in my Sicilian grandfathers home and I heard lots of these expressions from him and my numerous relatives. iPad. Ashpeta comes from aspettare which among other things also means wait or expect. phonetically in Neapolitan..ch si desh ?in English.what does you have to say for yourself? In this dictionary, you will find tons of American Italianwords and theirItalian linguistic origins. Just Enjoy! Growing up in Little Italy in the Bronx, the Belmont/Arthur Ave section, I am familiar with most of these phrases. Anybody know? It simply means go to work. We are all living in Ontario now since 1965. I would think Zi Francesc leaving off the o in zio (uncle) and the o in Francesco, In the Napolidan language they dislike using word endings to denote gender. This was a walk down memory lane for me! I heard these a lot from my adoptive mom, actually my paternal grandmother, while I was growing up in the 1950s-1960s. (ma tu sei pazzo!) This is great, my Papa came from Sicily & and Mamas family from Italy. The translation to English would be equivalent to may you live to be a hundred years old. get down from there! A reference on another Italian dialect site that says one word used in the Naples are for children is quartaro which might be morphed to quierdooday. (che malanova mi hai) [EE-maa-laa-no-mee-auw], lascialui! Itll be interesting to see how many generations these phrases live on in North America, or will they get lost in the broth of the melting pot? 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. If you visit Italy and Sicily and talk to those who went to university you will learn alot. These words are still used today in italian american homes and communities. [aa-faa-NAA-boe-laa], agita heartburn/indigestion (acidit) [AA-jih-tuh], ammonini! Half asleepout of itundoneconfusedtotally unaware of what is going on around him/hernot all together..perhaps begin to approach in American English how that term is sometimes used in describing a particular person. When they used to watch me when i was little, i didnt alwyas understnad them. What Does The Italian Word Marone Mean In English? - ILoveLanguages
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