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mangia-cake

Meaning of "mangia-cake" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MANGIA-CAKE

From Italian mangiare eat + cake.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF MANGIA-CAKE

ˈmandʒjaˌkeɪk


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MANGIA-CAKE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mangia-Cake is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MANGIA-CAKE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of mangia-cake in the English dictionary

The definition of mangia-cake in the dictionary is a derogatory term for a White person of Anglo-Saxon origin, used among Italo-Canadians.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MANGIA-CAKE

ashcake · beefcake · bridecake · carcake · cheesecake · corncake · cupcake · fishcake · friedcake · fruitcake · griddlecake · hoecake · johnnycake · jonnycake · nocake · oatcake · pancake · seedcake · shortcake · teacake

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MANGIA-CAKE

manganous · mange · mangeao · manged · mangel · mangelwurzel · mangemange · manger · mangetout · mangey · mangier · mangiest · mangily · manginess · mangle · mangled · mangler · mango · mango chutney · mango madness

WORDS THAT END LIKE MANGIA-CAKE

angel cake · birthday cake · cake · carrot cake · cattle-cake · chocolate cake · Christmas cake · coffee cake · cream cake · devil´s food cake · hotcake · layer cake · marble cake · oil cake · piece of cake · plumcake · pomfret-cake · pound cake · sponge cake · wedding cake

Synonyms and antonyms of mangia-cake in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «mangia-cake» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF MANGIA-CAKE

Find out the translation of mangia-cake to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of mangia-cake from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mangia-cake» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

曼贾蛋糕
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

mangia -cake
570 millions of speakers
en

English

mangia-cake
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

Mangia केक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

mangia كعكة
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

Mangia - торт
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

mangia -cake
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

mangia-পিষ্টক
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

mangia -cake
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Mangia-cake
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Mangia - Kuchen
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

マンジャケーキ
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

mangia 케이크
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Mangia-cake
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Mangia Bánh
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

mangia-கேக்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

मॅगिया-केक
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

mangia topağı
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

mangia -cake
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

Mangia - cake
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

Mangia - торт
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

mangia - tort
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

mangia - κέικ
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Mangië - koek
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mangia - tårta
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Mangia - kake
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mangia-cake

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MANGIA-CAKE»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of mangia-cake
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about mangia-cake

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MANGIA-CAKE»

Discover the use of 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  ...
Jan Greco, 2011
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  ...
Maximus Tonelli, 2010
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College Street
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
8
The Ambitious City
“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?
Scott Thornley, 2012
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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  ...
Susan Gabori, 1993
10
Quill & Quire
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 ...
‎1999

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.
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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»
2
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»
3
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»
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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»
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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»
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