Meaning of Portagee | Babel Free

Definitions

A person from Portugal or a person of Portuguese descent.

dated, derogatory, ethnic, slur

Equivalents

Examples

“She lives in New Bedford, and her dad's not around much and her mum calls her boyfriend a Portagee, a fuckin' greenhorn, and she says, Ma, he's 3rd generation, but her mum just rolls her eyes and fixes a drink, fills her glass with ice from the icemaker they have, pours some bourbon from the bottle on the glass-and-mirror shelf above the sink, turns on one of the gold seahorse faucets just a swoosh, and goes into the living room with the paper.”

“The Portagee sighed happily. He was home again.”

“What did the Portagee say when he opened a box of Cheerios? "Look, a box of doughnut seeds!"”

““You damn, dumb Portagee,” he was saying, “How could you have fallen for one of the oldest tricks in the book?”

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