dagos

Noun

dago (plural dagoes or dagos)

1. (Australia, US, ethnic, slur) A person of Italian descent.
   • There were Greeks and greasy Greeks, there were Chinese and Chinks, there were English and Pommies, but most of them clung to legitimacy. But with the Italians it was different. There were no Italians. All Italians were dago bastards.
     [...]
     Branigan had never worried, his position had been unique....2000, Filton Hebbard, Branigan: A Novel, page 128

   Synonyms:

   Eyetie, goombah, greaseball, guido, guinea, wog, wop

2. (derogatory, obsolete, often, slang) A crewman who speaks Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian.
   • The man-of-war’s-man, in sporting his money in those places, fancies himself perfectly at home; and he that dares for a moment to interrupt or oppose him, be he Dago or shipmate, will inevitably meet with a rebuff for his uninvited and indecorous intrusion; but coincide with him, extol the merits...1838, "A Man-of-war's-man" (pseudonym), Maritime Scraps, Or, Scenes in the Frigate United States During a Cruise in the Mediterranean..., Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
3. (England, US, dated, ethnic, slur) A person of Southern European descent.
   • Detective J.J. McVea of the Charles street station, who arrested the boys, says that the robbery of the safe was a remarkable one and showed no trace of amateurism. It was committed by four boys. Besides Lyons and Murphy, he says, there were in it Albert Moquin, 14 years old, of 68 West Third...1906 February 16, “[arrests for a larceny]”, in The Sun, New York City, U.S.
4. (US, derogatory, rare) A Catholic.