10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MANGIA-CAKE»
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mangia-cake in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
mangia-cake and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Once Upon an Italian Table: A Journey from Gypsy Spirit to ...
And I was rewarded for my diligence, finally, by never being called Mangia-cake
again. My father-in-law proclaimed one evening at the dinner table in our home,
after I had been officially in the family for over fifteen years, “I have to tell you, with
...
2
Eh, Paesan!: Being Italian in Toronto
Soccer table game. gli italiani all' estero. Italians overseas. istituto. Institute.
Italianita. Italian spirit or ambience. Lazio. Central Italian region of Latium.
madrepatria. Motherland. mal'occhio. Evil eye. mangia-cake. Pejorative term for
non-Italians ...
Nicholas DeMaria Harney, 1998
3
On Persecution, Identity, and Activism
"2A similarly derisive term ethnic Canadians (particularly Italo-Canadians) use to
describe Anglos is "mangia-cake" (pronounced manja-cake). My Italian-
Canadian cousins, who are relatively recent emigres to Canada, first exposed me
to this ...
Cristogianni Borsella, 2005
4
The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
231, 1991 mangia-cake noun a white person, especially British, but very North
American (said by an Italian) CANADA • "Mangia" is Italian for "eat," so to an [
especially] Toronto Italian, a non-Italian is a "mangia-cake." — Toronto Globe and
Mail ...
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006
5
The Pilot and the Actress
Andy said, “If that fucking maniac mangia cake leads us into an ambush, I will
personally put his balls in a vise and squeeze them until he has a woman's voice.
” “If this is a trap like the first patrol, I swear I will shoot the son of a bitch after you
...
Many a mangia-cake has been invited to an Italian wedding bearing gifts of
appliances or glassware, only to become legends of scorn in their own time. In
one particular incident a fellow named Darryl McCormack, who came to a
wedding with ...
Olindo Romeo Chiocca, 2005
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The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and ...
... the proliferation of pornographic websites on the Internet JAPAN, 1993
manged adjective damaged without hope of repair US, 1991 mangia-cake noun
a white person, especially British, but very North American (said by an Italian)
CANADA, ...
Terry Victor, Tom Dalzell, 2007
“Yes, I have.” “I remember,” Patsaid. “A shotgun to the gut, right?”His liptugged
down on theleftside; he nodded brieflyand shifted in his chair. “In the side, yes,
but I'm fine.” “A mangia-cake called Michael a wop!” Alberto said tohis son. “No
shit?
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In Search of Paradise: The Odyssey of an Italian Family
We Italians stayed together because we understood each other. We were more
comfortable with people from our own country. If you heard that an Italian girl was
marrying a nonItalian, a mangia-cake, it was a scandal. It was a dishonour for the
...
Barber has given long-overdue recognition to venerable Canadianisms like
pencil crayon, bargoon, cube van, mickey (that's the liquor bottle, not the mouse)
and mangia-cake (Italian-Canadian slang for white people of British extraction),
not ...
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MANGIA-CAKE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
mangia-cake is used in the context of the following news items.
Watchwords: Origin of Italo-Canadian term mangia-cake is in dispute
Who knew that “mangia-cake” would prove so controversial? In my last column I mentioned that the Oxford English Dictionary has accepted this ... «Montreal Gazette, Jul 15»
Watchwords: English is creeping into the Italian language
Today's column is, so far as I can tell, the first time “mangia-cake” has appeared in the Montreal Gazette, at least in the past 30 years, although ... «Montreal Gazette, Jul 15»
Twerk, Meh, and Inukshuk Some of the New Words Added to Oxford …
New Canadian words added include depanneur, inukshuk, mangia-cake, stagette, and keener. According to OED, the word depanneur is the ... «KelownaNow, Jun 15»
Some Canadian words that should be added to the Oxford Dictionary
Mangia-cake (a derogatory term Italians use to refer to non-Italians), stagette and, of course, double-double were all added to this update as ... «SheKnows.com, Jun 15»
Canadian words dépanneur, inukshuk among 500 new Oxford …
Mangia-cake, an Italian-English compound word, was added with the definition: "a derogatory term used by some Canadians of Italian descent ... «CBC.ca, Jun 15»
