dago

Example Sentences

• "There were Greeks and greasy Greeks, there were Chinese and Chinks, there were English and Pommies, but most of them clung to legitimacy. But with the Italians it was different. There were no Italians. All Italians were dago bastards. [...] Branigan had never worried, his position had been unique. But with most others, it was different. If, on returning from holidays their jobs had been filled by previously unemployed Australians, it was bad enough. But if their positions had been filled with Italians, the dago bastards came in for a flurry of fists."
• "‘Oh, well,’ Branigan shrugged, as he got about his shower. ‘Good or bad, I reckon he’s pretty easy with you. You’re about the only Dago I know who hasn’t stuck with his family, and yet he helps.’ Ivo’s eyes flashed. ‘I don’t like you calling me Dago.’ ‘Why?’ Branigan was lathering up his body, nude, unabashed in the usual manner. ‘What’s it mean? Dago?’ ‘I dunno, it Italian name. Me Slav, Yugoslav. I tell you that long time ago.’ ‘You’re all the same to me,’ Branigan grinned. Ivo was as Italian as Rome. ‘Bah.’"
• "The man-of-war’s-man, in sporting his money in those places, fancies himself perfectly at home; and he that dares for a moment to interrupt or oppose him, be he Dago or shipmate, will inevitably meet with a rebuff for his uninvited and indecorous intrusion; but coincide with him, extol the merits and virtues of the turpentine gin with which he is inflating himself, and you are as welcome, and will meet with as spirited and hearty reception, as great a quantity of the “precious stuff,” more or no money, as though you were his revered and legitimate brother."
• "I interviewed his aid to know what the Dago's rank was (Sailors call everybody that speaks Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Dagos)"
• "JAMES, the Spaniard’s patron saint, has been compelled to lend his name as “Iago” to innumerable towns, cities and villages. From Mexico to Patagonia in Spanish America, “Santiago,” “San Diego,” “Iago” and “Diego” are such frequently recurring vocables that the Yankee sailor calls natives of these countries “Dago men,” or “Diegos.” It is his slang name for foreigners of the Latin race. It is a relic of the old days when he knew them chiefly as pirates."
• "He had that treacherous snarky look, characteristic of all these Mediterranean nations, known to Yankee sailors by the generic name of Dago. However, as long as he behaved, I used him well, but I didn't trust him."