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Mafioso

See also: mafioso

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Etymology

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From Italian mafioso, from Sicilian mafiusu.

Noun

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Mafioso (plural Mafiosos or Mafiosi)

  1. An (especially male) member of the Mafia.
    Coordinate term: (rare) Mafiosa
    • 1998, World Press Review, volume 45, page 43, columns 1–2:
      The widow of one murdered Mafioso gave her son the bloody jacket that her husband had been killed in. […] So far there has not been a Mafiosa who has made it to the top on her own.
    • 2010, Jess Phillips, Roxy’s Sequel, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 176:
      “Sometimes, I swear you have no idea about the concept of money. Only you could give a one-of-a-kind ring to a female Mafioso, so casually.”
    • 2015, Attilio Bolzoni, Giuseppe D’Avanzo, translated by Shaun Whiteside, The Boss of Bosses: The Life of the Infamous Totò Riina, Dreaded Head of the Sicilian Mafia, London: Orion Books, →ISBN:
      Ninetta had grown up in a Mafia village, her family was Mafia, and she had fallen in love with a Mafioso. And she was a Mafiosa herself.
    • 2019, Michelle Frances, The Temp, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 301:
      “As the library grows in popularity, the community gets stronger and she gets more powerful. She ultimately goes from this timorous lady to a local kingpin. Kind of like a female Mafioso. And then someone crosses her so she has a vengeance to play out.”
    • 2019, Rosemarie M. Neilson, “The Throwaway Bride”, in Terrible Trauma Like a Poem, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
      Plotted from the beginning fitting a plan for a Mafioso dictator / Never deviating from the decision to be the first for a throwaway bride / Whims and whimsical thinking guides the denial of the Mafiosa.

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Noun

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Mafioso m (strong, genitive Mafiosos or Mafioso, plural Mafiosi)

  1. Mafioso

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