paint with a tar brush v. phr.— «People are afraid to stand up and say they’re Italian-American because immediately they get painted with a brush, a tar brush, that says Mafia, organized crime or something else nefarious of that type...
kiteski n.— «Italian is becoming a language ever more suspended between exasperated modernisation (“kiteski,” sport consisting of being pulled along in skis by a kite, from 2003).» —“Englishisms And Dialect In New...
fladry n.pl. a string of flags used to contain or exclude wild animals. Also attributively: fladry line, fladry barrier. Editorial Note: In English fladry tends to be used in the plural only, meaning you can have “some fladry,” very...
dago T-shirt n.— «He lived in the ghetto in an all Italian neighborhood.…You can still picture him sort of short, stocky build, hair greased back, dago-t-shirt tatoo of a heart and an old girl friend’s name, he is always dirty...
cittaslow n.— «Residents of Goolwa, Hindmarsh Island and Currency Creek are being invited to decide whether Goolwa will become Australia’s first official “slow town.” Goolwa has been proposed as a Cittaslow. Pronounced Chit-a...
slow town n.— «Residents of Goolwa, Hindmarsh Island and Currency Creek are being invited to decide whether Goolwa will become Australia’s first official “slow town.” Goolwa has been proposed as a Cittaslow. Pronounced Chit-a...