Dago meaning

dā'gō
Used as a disparaging term for a person of Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese descent.
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(US, Australia, slang, offensive) A person of Italian descent.
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A person, often dark-skinned, of Spanish, Portuguese, or, now esp., Italian descent.
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(UK, slang, offensive) A person of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, or other Mediterranean descent.
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Origin of dago

Alteration of diego (“Spaniard”), from Spanish Diego (“common Spanish name”) by law of Hobson-Jobson. See Johnnie and Jock for similar epithets.

Sentence Examples

  • An archipelago of islands, of which DagO is the largest, belongs to this government (Oesel belongs to Livonia).

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  • 4, Thenius and Wellhausen, followed by Robertson Smith and others, read "only his fish-part (dago) was left to him"; against this, see the comm.

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