eye-talian
/aɪˈtæljən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.49 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "No, sir, lose your colonies, and you'd have Eye'''-talian cities without their climate, Eye'''-talian lazaroni without their light hearts to sing over their poverty, (for the English can't sing a bit better nor bull frogs,) and worse than Eye'''-talian eruptions and volcanoes in politics, without the grandeur and sublimity of those in natur'."
- ""She is brown as a chipmunk, and her eyes is as big and lovin' as them of the little Eye-talian girl you've been talkin' about." "It-talian, not Eye-talian, Phil corrected […].""
- "“Hey, Pensiero, ya know whut a Eye-talian submarine sounds like, on dat new sonar?""
- "“All this eating and drinking is hard,” he says, all white beard and Eye-talian-American accent, as he pulls up a chair in the Japanese restaurant Zuma in Knightsbridge. / “How do you manage? If I drink at lunchtime I just get sleepy and… affectionate.”"
- "“So, now our Mountaineers have to be playin’ all these Eye-talians?” asked Clyde."
- "When Sal's "troublemaker," his three-times-daily, pizza-eating and paying customer, demanded that Sal "take down all those 'Eye-talians' on the wall and put up some black brothers," Sal callously replied, "Get your own place and do what you want.""
Etymology
Usage
- American usage
- Derogatory
- Slang
Inflected Forms
I-talian (alternative)
Eye-talians (plural)