单词 | paesano |
释义 | paesanon. Chiefly U.S. In early use: a person of Italian descent or birth; esp. a rustic person, a villager. In later use (U.S.): an Italian-American man; spec. a mafioso.Used chiefly in Italian-speaking communities. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Italians > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Italy Itailec1400 Italian1439 Italianate1587 trans alpiner1599 transalpine1617 Eyetalian1838 macaroni1845 ice-creamer1851 Eyetie1919 paesanoa1930 spaghetti1931 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun] > of a specific country > Italian contadino1630 paesanoa1930 society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a criminal or law-breaker > gangster > specific liberal1638 liberty boy1733 gang leader1775 Camorrist1863 mafioso1875 gangster1900 amalaita1908 dada1917 paesanoa1930 skolly1934 Mafiaist1948 oyabun1948 yakuza1964 mafiosa1965 goombah1968 rascal1978 yardie1986 new jack1988 lynch man2004 a1930 D. H. Lawrence First Lady Chatterley (1944) vii. 92 She would never be able to imitate his speech. You couldn't even spell it. He didn't say ‘these’ but ‘thaese’, like the Italian paesano. 1949 R. A. Schermerhorn These our People 243 The priest of the village was often enough a paesano who had grown up with the members of the congregation. 1970 R. J. Vecoli in L. Dinnerstein & F. C. Jaher Aliens: Hist. Ethnic Minorities in Amer. 223 Yet it happened that conditions became intolerable, and the paesani (gangs were commonly composed of men from the same town) would resist the exactions of the ‘boss’. 1983 Time (U.S. ed.) (Nexis) 11 July bt1 Paesanos fantasize about ‘living an honorable, transparent life in peace in an honorable, transparent country’. 1998 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 2 Dec. 7 b I will tell Mary Ann Sorrentino why Rhode Island paesani do not vote for Italo-American politicians. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1930 |
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