Meaning of mafiosa | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A female member of the Mafia.
   uncommon
2. Alternative letter-case form of Mafiosa.
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Examples

“Signora Soprano is a neighborhood Italian girl who knew exactly what she was getting into when she married Tony and is not above acting like⟳ a mafiosa herself when it suits her.”

““Do our girls really have⟳ that much power?” Annelise asked. “Where do they get⟳ it from?” / “Maybe it’s our fault,” I said. “Is there a feminine for mafiosos? Mafiosas? Because apparently that’s what we are, the Mothers’ Mafia. “I also had seen this in one of the books on raising teenagers. “Conspiring to keep⟳ unworthy children from being included in birthday parties, play⟳ dates, and Scout troops.””

“Turns out ol’ Larry here was having a thing with a mafiosa down in Jersey City. Watched too many episodes of The Sopranos or something. Needless to say⟳, Mr. Mafioso wasn’t too happy when he came home and found Larry shtupping his wife.”

““What do you think⟳, sweetie?” “I think⟳ your mother and sister are mafiosas, they’re so damn good in business. It makes sense⟳, too. I think⟳ Steven will agree⟳. I mean⟳, Steven knows talent when he sees it, so does Amy. But Baby, it’s your company.[…]””

““You better keep⟳ out of my way, mafiosa, otherwise, you would get⟳ sorryed.” Bob said. […] “[…] Try⟳ to be a little clever; you know⟳ everybody who is living on this land⟳ has to be good to each other, DEA, CIA, FBI, El Paso PD, Customs, Border⟳ control⟳ or any mafioso likes^([sic]) us are all the same, to live⟳ or die⟳, on this side of El Paso or on the other side of Juarez; Try⟳ for not hit bad lucky and be a good boy, then you could live⟳ longer…; you got it. I am just warming you now, next time you won't be so easy…” the mafiosa cut⟳ the line off. “Hey, what a fucking hell world we are living, I am an American white citizen, a fucking dark Latina Mexicana is teaching me how” to do on my land⟳.?” […] “Look⟳, how a mafiosa gangster is teaching me American history.” Bob said.”

“When Camassa asked why she had acted like⟳ that, Rita replied indignantly, ‘Signora, I am not a mafiosa and have⟳ never been, and so I can collaborate with the law. But Spatola is a mafioso, and so is a traitor, and I don’t talk⟳ to traitors.’”

“The shop⟳ owner commented on the episode in this way: / That Carla is a mafiosa. A downright mafiosa. Put⟳ this in your book, Dorothy. She comes here and tells me what discount I have⟳ to put⟳ on my merchandise. Who is she?”

“Once the steam-roller was started nothing could stop⟳ it. It crushed indifferently men of ideas and the Mafiosa, sixty-two-year-old “Queen of Ganci.””

“But the women remain⟳ deputies or stand-ins. So far there has not been a Mafiosa who has made it to the top on her own⟳.”

“One theme that clearly appeared among Mafiosas was control⟳—or their lack of it. In this context, women fared as best they could, often becoming helpmates in their men’s criminal activities.”

“Shortly before locking hour the Mafiosas or sisters, as they called themselves (of course many PCC members were still in prison and for those who were taken to other jails new ones came), which controlled the cell occupancy, negotiated with Gislane and Raposa.”

“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.”

“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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