单词 | mangiacake |
释义 | mangiacaken. Canadian slang (often derogatory). Among Canadians of Italian descent: a non-Italian Canadian, esp. a white person from a British background. ΚΠ 1975 R. F. Harney & H. M. Troper Immigrants 84/2 Italo-Canadians to this day refer to some English Canadians as ‘mangia-cakes’, cake-eaters, to imply the limits of their diets compared to that of the Mediterranean countries. 1988 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 26 Feb. ‘Remember, there are mangia-cakes,’ I've been told by an Italian friend, ‘and there are mangia-cakes.’ 1999 Ottawa Sun 15 Oct. l49 Top that off with an authentic Italian meal..and even if you're a mangia cake you won't fuhgedaboud Tony 'N Tina's Wedding. 2001 Now (Toronto) 19 Apr. 69/4 Chiarelli delivers many of the lines in Italian and then translates for us mangiacakes. 2010 Central Plains Herald-Leader (Portage La Prairie, Manitoba) 30 Jan. 19/1 Daniel Day-Lewis..isn't the only mangia-cake flinging around a ‘spicy meatball’ accent on the big screen these days. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1975 |
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