Meaning of Eye-talian | Babel Free

Definitions

Italian, usually in reference to an Italian American person or Italian American culture.

US, derogatory, not-comparable, pronunciation-spelling, slang

Examples

“No, sir, lose your colonies, and you'd have Eye'''-talian cities without their climate, Eye'''-talian lazaroni without their light hearts to sing over their poverty, (for the English can't sing a bit better nor bull frogs,) and worse than Eye'''-talian eruptions and volcanoes in politics, without the grandeur and sublimity of those in natur'.”

“"She is brown as a chipmunk, and her eyes is as big and lovin' as them of the little Eye-talian girl you've been talkin' about." "It-talian, not Eye-talian, Phil corrected […]."”

““Hey, Pensiero, ya know whut a Eye-talian submarine sounds like, on dat new sonar?"”

““All this eating and drinking is hard,” he says, all white beard and Eye-talian-American accent, as he pulls up a chair in the Japanese restaurant Zuma in Knightsbridge. / “How do you manage? If I drink at lunchtime I just get sleepy and… affectionate.””

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