单词 | cafone |
释义 | cafonen. 1. A labourer; a peasant, esp. one who is Italian or of Italian descent. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun] churlc1275 Hobc1325 Hodgec1386 charla1400 carlc1405 peasanta1450 hoggler1465 agrest1480 hoggener1488 rustical?1532 boor1548 rusticc1550 kern1556 clown1563 Jocka1568 John Uponlanda1568 russet coat1568 rustican1570 hind?1577 Corydon1581 gaffer1589 gran1591 russeting1597 dunghill1608 hog rubber1611 carlota1616 high shoe1647 Bonhomme1660 high-shoon-man1664 cot1695 ruralist1739 Johnnya1774 Harry1796 bodach1830 bucolic1862 cafone1872 bogman1891 country bookie1904 desi1907 middle peasant1929 woodchuck1931 swede-basher1943 moegoe1953 shit-kicker1961 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > [noun] > manual worker > labourer or unskilled labourera1393 laboura1425 pioneer1543 hand1551 heaver1587 yard boy1776 son of toil1779 spalpeen1780 hacker1784 khalasi1785 tiger1865 cafone1872 mucker1899 mazdoor1937 bracero1946 manamba1959 nkuba kyeyo1991 1872 Old & New Aug. 232/2 When we lose ourselves in the abandoned plains or uncared-for forests of the Capitanate, and hear suddenly the shot of the Cafone or of the Mafioso,—we begin to realize perhaps that a great danger will arise for us. 1905 E. Lord et al. Italian in Amer. vii. 119 The greater part of the laborers who make up the bulk of the immigration from Central and Southern Italy..are not countryfolk, like the mass of American farm hands, but cafoni, who have been dwellers in towns for centuries for needed defence and security. 1942 I. Silone in Jrnl. Politics (1944) 6 166 The experience of generations makes the Cafoni think that the state is only a better organized Camorra. 1969 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 74 377/1 Joyously the members announced that at last Chicago's cafoni, or ignorant ‘Southern’ peasants, too often the victim of Black Hand hoodlums, had ‘a protector in the White Hand’. 1994 Observer (Nexis) 7 Aug. (Review section) 26 Silone presents realistic detail..and simple, effective narration, which he learnt in the semi-literate world of the cafone, (peasants), of his youth. 2. slang. Esp. in Italian-American usage: a coarse-mannered person; a low-life, a lout. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lout or boor > [noun] carter1509 clumpertonc1534 club1542 pig1546 lout1548 clinchpoop1555 clout-shoe1563 loose-breech1575 hoyden1593 clunch1602 clod1607 camel1609 clusterfist1611 loon1619 Grobian1621 clota1637 hoyde1636 Hottentot1710 yahoo1726 polisson1866 mucker1884 bohunk1908 hairy ape1931 cafone1949 trog1956 oafo1959 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour > person bearc1395 carter1509 kensy?a1513 clumpertonc1534 club1542 lout1548 clinchpoop1555 clout-shoe1563 loose-breech1575 clown1583 hoyden1593 boor1598 kill-courtesy1600 rustic1600 clunch1602 loblolly1604 camel1609 clusterfist1611 loon1619 Grobian1621 rough diamonda1625 hoyde1636 clodhopper1699 roughhead1726 indelicate1741 vulgarian1809 snob1838 vulgarist1847 yahoo1861 cave-dweller1865 polisson1866 mucker1884 caveman1907 wampus1912 yobbo1922 yenta1923 yob1927 rude1946 cafone1949 no-neck1961 ocker1971 1949 R. A. Schermerhorn These our People xi. 236 The contadini did not want their children to intermarry with the day laborers, who were cafoni (low-brow). 1974 Center Mag. July–Aug. The contadini (peasants) were the mudsill of a still larger feudal society... They were despised as cafoni (boors). 1996 P. Attanasio Donnie Brasco (film script) (O.E.D. Archive) 72 Two weeks you been wearing that same fucking shirt, you gavone... No wonder we can't get service in this joint. 1998 J. Manos & D. Chase College (HBO TV shooting script) 3 in Sopranos 1st Ser. (O.E.D. Archive) Tony. Cafone. Meadow. What does that even mean? Tony. Peasants. Low class mutants. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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