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Some of the new words he acquires are extremely curious, e. g., canabuldogga (= bulldog), pipe del gasso (= gas-pipe), coppetane (= ncuop+town = uptown), fruttistenne (= fruit-stand), sanemagogna (= son-of-agun), mezzo-barrista (= half-time bartender.)
Appendix 2. Non-English Dialects in America. 5. Italian Henry Louis 1921
chained_bear commented on the word sanemagogna
I heard this a lot growing up, usually jokingly though I can see how earlier generations were not as likely to use it that way... But I never saw it in print until I saw this:
"How often we cursed Columbus
who discovered this land of liberty!
But he took Liberty
because I don't see its fruit!
Comes the policeman
and he take everything
If you speak you're arrested
Keep your mouth shut ... Because for nothing
they send you to the chair.
—Carlo Ferrazzano, La Merica Sanemagogna (America Son-of-a-Gun)"
Quoted in Jerre Mangione and Ben Morreale, La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience (New York: HarperPerennial, 1992), 290
I would never have guessed this is how it could be spelled.
December 17, 2009
reesetee commented on the word sanemagogna
Ha!
December 18, 2009