diego
See also: Diego
English
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editdiego (plural diegos)
- (slang, ethnic slur) A Spanish-speaker, especially from Latin America.
- 1987, Glyn Hughes, The Rape of the Rose, page 177:
- They're just like Ludds, them diegos — nothing but a load of scum. I've seen 'ow they live. O' course, we soldiers dwell in mud 'alf the time, but that's different. We're building an empire. But them diegos! Them Jimmies! Well, I tell you!
- 1985, Robert Anton Wilson, The Widow's Son (The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles), page 17:
- "... Around twenty years old and pretty tall for a diego, maybe five-seven or five-eight." / "A diego?" Armand said. "He's a diego?" / "From Napoli."
- 2009, Mickey Smith, For The Claret & Blue:
- Now I don't know what it is with the diegos, but as we were walking back to the hotel a couple of them started giving us a bit of verbals.
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editItalian
editEtymology
editPerhaps from the male given name Diego.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdiego m (plural dieghi)
- (central Italy) Synonym of pettirosso (“European robin”)
References
edit- ^ Diego in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading
edit- diego in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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