Eye-talian

US derogatory not-comparable pronunciation-spelling slang

(chiefly US, slang, pronunciation spelling, derogatory) Italian, usually in reference to an Italian American or Italian American culture.

Japanese Meaning

（主に米国のスラングで、軽蔑的な表現として）イタリア人、またはイタリア系アメリカ人やその文化を指す。

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The historian explained that Eye-talian stereotypes, used as a derogatory adjective, were applied to entire neighborhoods of Italian immigrants.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

歴史家は、「イタリア系アメリカ人」という用語が形容詞として軽蔑的に用いられ、イタリア移民の居住地区全体を指すために使われていたと説明した。

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(chiefly US, slang, pronunciation spelling, derogatory) Italian, usually in reference to an Italian American or Italian American culture.

No, sir, lose your colonies, and you'd have Eye-talian cities without their climate, Eye-talian lazaroni without their light hearts to sing over their poverty, (for the English can't sing a bit better nor bull frogs,) and worse than Eye-talian eruptions and volcanoes in politics, without the grandeur and sublimity of those in natur'.

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