mafioso

Noun capitalized: Mafioso

Mafioso (plural Mafiosos or Mafiosi)

1. A member of the Mafia.
   • Phil put his arms around him. Drew him in close, pressed his cheek to Dane's the way the Mafiosi in the fifties would kiss somebody right before they punched his ticket.2006, Tom Piccirilli, Headstone City, Random House, →ISBN, retrieved 08 Dec 2021, page 189
   • “Sometimes, I swear you have no idea about the concept of money. Only you could give a one-of-a-kind ring to a female Mafioso, so casually.”2010, Jess Phillips, Roxy’s Sequel, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 176
   1. (strictly) A male member of the Mafia.
      • The widow of one murdered Mafioso gave her son the bloody jacket that her husband had been killed in. […] So far there has not been a Mafiosa who has made it to the top on her own.1998, World Press Review, volume 45, page 43, columns 1–2
      • Is there a feminine for mafiosos? Mafiosas? Because apparently that’s what we are, the Mothers’ Mafia.2006 March 21, Kathleen Gilles Seidel, chapter 2, in A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 33