Citations:Portugeezer

English citations of Portugeezer

Noun: "(UK, slang, sometimes pejorative) a Portuguese person"

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  • 1904, Frank C. Voorhies, Twisted History, G. W. Dillingham Company (1904), page 38:
    Here he established trading posts, and in less than a year or so all the Portugeezers were eating chutney on their beefsteaks, and calling it an Indian meal.
  • 2002, Pete May, West Ham: Irons in the Soul, Mainstream Publishing Company (2002), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    For a while Redknapp tried to pair Dowie, who possessed all the speed of a steamroller, with the sublimely fast Portugeezer Hugo Porfirio — Porfirio's permanent expression of bemusement and sometimes downright amazement at his strike partner is still vivid.
  • 2008, Dan Walsh, Endless Horizon: A Very Messy Motorcycle Journey Around the World, Motorbooks (2009), →ISBN, page 25:
    This liberating relinquishing of control seemed to chill everybody right out – the Germans took to canoodling and beachcombing, the Portugeezer shared out the last of his biscuits, I spent a couple of hours listening to the waves then idly chatting with the Belgians about Joey Dunlop and Manx Nortons.
  • 2011, Ian Ridley, There's a Golden Sky: How Twenty Years of the Premier League Have Changed Football Forever, Bloomsbury (2011), →ISBN, page 101:
    Next Cristiano Ronaldo, a 'Portugeezer' with sublime skills and who brought the art of dribbling back to the English game.
  • 2012, Richard Fitzpatrick, El Clasico: Barcelona v Real Madrid: Football's Greatest Rivalry, A. & C. Black (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    [] to Nobby and the Buzzmen for lessons in life (Gaffer, when stood beside José Mourinho, the Portugeezer is only a little man); []