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wop

wop

See also: woþ

English

Noun

wop ‎(plural wops)

(Britain, US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.
world's oldest profession

Translations

person of Italian descent

Bulgarian: жабар (bg) m ‎(žabár)
Dutch: spaghettivreter (nl) m, macaronivreter (nl) m, pizzavreter (nl) m
Estonian: makaroniõgija
Finnish: italiaano (fi), makaroni (fi), Luigi
French: rital (fr) m, macaroni (fr) m
German: Itaker (de) m, Spaghettifresser (de) m, Tschingg m (Switzerland, parts of Austria), Tschingili m (Baden)
Alemannic German: Tschingg
Hungarian: digó (hu)
Japanese: ウォップ ‎(woppu)

Korean: 이태리 놈 ‎(Itaeri nom), 이탈리아 놈 ‎(Itallia nom)
Kurdish: ^{(please verify)}gefker (ku)
Polish: makaroniarz (pl) m
Portuguese: macarrone m, f, carcamano (pt) m, f, latacho m
Russian: италья́шка m ‎(italʹjáška)
Spanish: tano (es) m, tana (es) f (Argentina, Uruguay), espagueti (es) m, f, bachiche m, f (Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador), italianini m, f, bachicha (es) m, f (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru)
Swedish: spagge c, spaghettigubbe c

Synonyms

(person of Italian descent): dago, Eyetie, goombah, greaseball, guido, guinea, wog

Anagrams

pow, POW

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wōpaz ‎(“clamour, weeping”).

Pronunciation

Noun

wōp m

weeping, lamentation

Descendants

Middle English: wop, weop
- English: woop, whoop

Torricelli

Noun

wop

water

References

transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

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