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Please feel free to add to our ongoing comments section to share your words and stories! My husband says it all the time. I have been trying to find out for years how to spell the Italian (most likely Italian-American slang) word that sounds phonetically like Badjagaloop and what the English translation is. My family immigrated to Boston and Providence!! Thank you for this. Scoppa and Briscolla are common, and have yet to find folks familiar with Sette Mezzo. First is something like ahge [AHJH] use to describe the feeling of being full (especially in your chest and throat) after eating greasy food. The Top 6 Italian Dictionary Apps for Online and Offline Queries. I love that you mention gagutz. See the following definitions: Language: a complete, independent form of verbal communication (example: modern Italian or American English), Dialect: a complete language derived from another complete language (example: Sicilian), Pidgin: an incomplete, secondary language formed impromptu by people in an area who do not speak the main language (example: Gabbagool). One thing to keep in mind is that there are at least three origins of the Italian language; the proper Italian, dialect specific to each region/municipality, and the bastardization of dialect we usually call Italian-American; which is the subject of this thread. I know d and t sounds can overlap, as well as b and p, and c and g. When I was young, I thought pasta was BOSS-ta! it sounds phonetically like, Zutagil or sootagil. (Always said out of exasperation.). Whoever made this dictionarythank you very much. The translation to English would be equivalent to may you live to be a hundred years old. I realize that this isnt about recipes, but I have not been able to find the recipe for a dish my family called moo-en-zahn, or pickled eggplant. Without a repository for these words, they will likely be lost, as pidgin languages are difficult to sustain. Another: Cin dai iru. For capo fresco i came up with fresh head with google translate. American Italianis an Italian-American pidgin languagedeveloped in the early 20th century by Italian immigrants settling in American cities and metropolitanareas, especially in New York and New Jersey. I have a cousin who when we get together still says Hey! phonetically in Neapolitan..ch si desh ?in English.what does you have to say for yourself? Italian synonyms, Italian pronunciation, Italian translation, English dictionary definition of Italian. Imagine how it was for our grandparents and great-grandparents when they first came here not knowing a word of English. mmm maybe li surici (Italian i sorci. American - definition, audio pronunciation and more for American: 1. of or from America 2. a person from the United States: See more in the Cambridge English-Italian Dictionary - Cambridge Dictionary The languagewas prominent in United States cities on the East Coast, such as Newark, Paterson, New York City (especially Manhattan and Brooklyn), the cities of Long Island,Philadelphia, Chicago, and Boston, but I am finding that it was spoken very similarly in the other regions of the US as well aspockets of Canada. Its nice to hear someone speak New York again as well as Italian slang! That is an easy one- the root word is aspettarethe Italian verb to wait. So many of the comparisons here to standard Italian are really comparisons between two different dialects.

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