Che Cozzo – Which begs to ask why? But not really in a nice way.Ĭrazy Stevie B as he conjures up the Italian Slang Word of the DayĪnyway you will see what I mean. Managia which I often say to this day is kind of a swear word that is an expression of unpleasant surprise. Somebody that always complains that he is poor or in a bad way… starving to death.
Words like Pazzo or Crazy, Acita or Heartburn, Mortadefam or Morta di fame which translates into starving to death or as a noun to describe someone as a mortadem. Stevie B and the Italian Slang Word of the DayĪs I go through his library of slang words my memory comes alive. On the other hand these are fond memories we have of our Italian ancestry.
Some people take offense saying that we are in some way dimunizing our culture. in a non vulgar way brings back these adorable words for us to hear again. Italian Slang Word of the Day In these videos Stevie B. So when the people emigrated and wanted to react to someone that didn’t understand they would say… Capeesh? It is just something that we all grew up with. Capeesh was a word that meant Understand in Italian. These days they are just too funny to hear but all of us remember words such as Capeesh (Capisci) for example. Remember the word “Chooch” for Jack Ass?!?
didn’t matter if you were first, second or third generation you heard these slang words.Ĭhooch is an example of what we are calling an Italian American Slang word Actually many of them were simply words that had been bastardized in the transition from Italian or from a particular Italian dialect into English. ” GOOMBA’ “ (Compare’) * If you grew up in an Italian American or for that matter any Italian / English speaking Immigrant family…. * Take a guess as to what this means? Growin’ up I heard this over and over again. ” Goomba’ “ Italian American Slang word of the day with Stevie B.
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