Eye-talian
/aɪˈtæljən/
Eye-talian adjective: italian, usually in reference to an Italian American person or Italian American culture.
Adjective
Eye-talian (not comparable)
- Italian, usually in reference to an Italian American person or Italian American culture.
- 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...1848, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Judge Haliburton's Yankee Stories, page 175
- "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 […]."1918, Sidney McCall, Mary McNeil Fenollosa, Sunshine Beggars, page 94
Noun
Eye-talian (plural Eye-talians)
- An Italian, usually an Italian American.
- “So, now our Mountaineers have to be playin’ all these Eye-talians?” asked Clyde.1989 January 1, Mike Downey, “COLLEGE FOOTBALL: THE BOWL GAMES : Country Road Leads Them to Big Time”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC...
- 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."1989 August 16, Leah L. Simons, “No Judgments from Spike Lee”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2026
Examples of Eye-talian in a sentence
- “Hey, Pensiero, ya know whut a Eye-talian submarine sounds like, on dat new sonar?"1995, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, page 642:
- “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?2011 July 1, Victoria Moore, “Francis Ford Coppola's second career as a winemaker”, in Tony Gallagher, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London...
- 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."2003 November 30, Jody Alesandro, “COVER STORY; Laugh Lines Where You Most Expect Them”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New...
Forms of Eye-talian
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | I-talian |
| Noun | |
| plural | Eye-talians |
Origin of Eye-talian
Representing a dialectal pronunciation of Italian.
Words that rhyme with Eye-talian
Questions about Eye-talian
- What does Eye-talian mean?
- Eye-talian means italian, usually in reference to an Italian American person or Italian American culture.
- How do you use Eye-talian in a sentence?
- “Hey, Pensiero, ya know whut a Eye-talian submarine sounds like, on dat new sonar?"
- What part of speech is Eye-talian?
- Eye-talian can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce Eye-talian?
- Eye-talian is pronounced /aɪˈtæljən/.
Words near Eye-talian in the dictionary
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