Eye-talian

English Alternative forms en I-talian Etymology Representing a dialectal pronunciation of en Italian. Pronunciation en /aɪˈtæljən/ en En-au-Eye-talian.ogg AU en æliən 4 Adjective - 1 en chiefly US slang pronunciation spelling derogatory Italian, usually in reference to an Italian American person or Italian American culture. en 1848 Thomas Chandler Haliburton Judge Haliburton's Yankee Stories 175 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'. en 1918 Sidney McCall; Mary McNeil Fenollosa Sunshine Beggars 94 "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 […]." en 1995 Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow 642 “Hey, Pensiero, ya know whut a Eye-talian submarine sounds like, on dat new sonar?" 1 July 2011 Victoria Moore Francis Ford Coppola's second career as a winemaker https://web.archive.org/web/20110704012034/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/wine/8610985/Francis-Ford-Coppolas-second-career-as-a-winemaker.html “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.” Noun 1 en chiefly US slang pronunciation spelling derogatory An Italian, usually an Italian American. 1 January 1989 Mike Downey COLLEGE FOOTBALL: THE BOWL GAMES : Country Road Leads Them to Big Time https://web.archive.org/web/20260126110134/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-01-sp-371-story.html “So, now our Mountaineers have to be playin’ all these Eye-talians?” asked Clyde. 16 August 1989 Leah L. Simons No Judgments from Spike Lee https://web.archive.org/web/20260126110852/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1989/08/17/no-judgments-from-spike-lee/e0ad21b3-c660-4bb4-adea-375474439fea/ When Sal's "troublemaker," his three-times-daily, pizza-eating and paying customer, demanded that Sal "take down all those Eye-talians on the wall and put up some black brothers," Sal callously replied, "Get your own place and do what you want." 30 November 2003 Jody Alesandro COVER STORY; Laugh Lines Where You Most Expect Them https://web.archive.org/web/20150528002251/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/30/tv/cover-story-laugh-lines-where-you-most-expect-them.html More than 30 years ago Carroll O'Connor would sit in Archie Bunker's favorite chair and rant about "jungle bunnies" or "chinks" or, "you know, Edith, dem dere Eye-talians." en informal demonyms pronunciation spellings