portagee
/ˈpɔɹtəɡi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "She lives in New Bedford, and her dad's not around much and her mum calls her boyfriend a Portagee, a fuckin' greenhorn, and she says, Ma, he's 3rd generation, but her mum just rolls her eyes and fixes a drink, fills her glass with ice from the icemaker they have, pours some bourbon from the bottle on the glass-and-mirror shelf above the sink, turns on one of the gold seahorse faucets just a swoosh, and goes into the living room with the paper."
- "The Portagee sighed happily. He was home again."
- "What did the Portagee say when he opened a box of Cheerios? "Look, a box of doughnut seeds!""
- "“You damn, dumb Portagee,” he was saying, “How could you have fallen for one of the oldest tricks in the book?"
- "Did you hear about the man who was half Portagee and half Italian? He made himself an offer he couldn't understand."
- "Melvin has a very Portagee accent."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpɔɹtəɡi/
- British English: /ˈpɔːtəɡi/