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单词 cafone
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cafonen.

Brit. /kaˈfəʊni/, U.S. /ɡəˈvoʊn/, /kæˈfoʊneɪ/
Inflections: Plural cafones, unchanged, cafoni.
Forms: 1800s– cafone, 1900s– caffone, 1900s– gavone.
Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian cafone.
Etymology: < Italian cafone peasant (1861 as caffone; 1882 as adjective in sense ‘uneducated’), now also ‘boor, lout’; further etymology uncertain and disputed.In form gavone representing Italian regional pronunciation. In plural form cafoni after the Italian plural form.
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]
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Bonhomme1660
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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
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laboura1425
pioneer1543
hand1551
heaver1587
yard boy1776
son of toil1779
spalpeen1780
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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.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lout or boor > [noun]
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Grobian1621
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mucker1884
bohunk1908
hairy ape1931
cafone1949
trog1956
oafo1959
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour > person
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kensy?a1513
clumpertonc1534
club1542
lout1548
clinchpoop1555
clout-shoe1563
loose-breech1575
clown1583
hoyden1593
boor1598
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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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