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Definition: Dago |
DagoNoun1. Ethnic slur; offensive terms for a person of Italian descent. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dago" was first used: 1823. (references) |
Synonyms: DagoSynonyms: greaseball (n), wop (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Extraneousness | Noun: extraneousness; Adjective: extrinsicality; exteriority; alienage, alienism. foreign body, foreign substance, foreign element; alien, stranger, intruder, interloper, foreigner, novus homo, newcomer, immigrant, emigrant; creole, Africander; outsider; Dago, wop, mick, polak, greaser, slant, Easterner, Dutchman, tenderfoot. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dago |
| English words defined with "dago": Dagos. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Dago" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Basque (is, there is), Swedish (dago, wop). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Let me lay it on the line for you and your boss, whoever he is. Johnny Fontane willl never get that movie! I don't care how many dago guinea wop greaseball goombahs come out of the woodwork! (The Godfather; writing credit: Francis Ford Coppola; Mario Puzo) Leave it to a dago to go halfway around the world to get a take-home meal. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Haneuleul bogo byeoleul dago (1969) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Cote d'Ivoire | Dago sought medical care and filed a complaint against the police officer and the others who beat him. (references) |
Cote d'Ivoire | His brothers escaped on foot; Dago was detained but released after the officer determined that he was a student trying to get home. (references) | |
Cote d'Ivoire | On April 23, a police officer and three other men attacked and seriously beat Dago Fabrice in Yopougon, after they reportedly mistook Dago and his brothers for suspected thieves. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Dago" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dago" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "dago" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Dago | Last name | 100 | 73,871 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dago | 49 |
dago red | 14 |
chopper dago | 14 |
dago garcia | 6 |
clip dago | 6 |
dago hamc | 6 |
dago mob | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dago"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | latino. (various references) | |
Czech | přivandrovalec (newcomer), hanlivá přezdívka španìlùm, portugalcùm, italùm. (various references) | |
German | südländer (mediterranean type, southerner), kanake, itaker (eyetie). (various references) | |
Hungarian | digó (dingo, eyetie, wop), portugál bevándorolt, olasz bevándorolt. (various references) | |
Indonesian | orang spanyol. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agoday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | luso-americano, hispano-americano (spanish american), gringo (gringo), ítalo-americano (italianize). (various references) | |
Romanian | american din america de sud. (various references) | |
Russian | даго. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nadimak za italijane, špance. (various references) | |
Spanish | extranjero (alien, alien resident, foreign, foreign country, foreigner, outlandish, stranger), extraño (alien, bizarre, droll, eerie, extraneous, foreign, kinky, odd, oddish, out of the way, peculiar, quaint, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, singular, strange, stranger, uncommon, weird). (various references) | |
Swedish | dago (wop). (various references) | |
Turkish | italyan veya ispanyol asıllı kimse, büyük okyanus adaları yerlisi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Spanish | 900-Modern | Diego. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dago": dagoba, dagobas, dagoes, dagos. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "dago": solidago. (additional references) | |
Words containing "dago": pedagog, pedagogic, pedagogical, pedagogically, pedagogics, pedagogies, pedagogs, pedagogue, pedagogues, pedagogy, solidagos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "dago" (pronounced 'Da"go'): AErugo, Amigo, Arango, Argo, Bongo, Botargo, Bungo, Caligo, Camerlingo, Cargo, Cerago, Chimango, Colugo, Contango, Cundurango, Dingo, Drongo, Ego, Ergo, Eringo, Eryngo, Fandango, Farrago, Ferrugo, Fidalgo, flamingo, galago, Ginkgo, gringo, Hidalgo, Hogo, imago, Imbargo, impetigo, intertrigo, jingo, lanugo, Largo, lentigo, lingo, lumbago, mango, Melligo, Non-ego, Pichiciago, plumbago, Pongo, Potargo, Prurigo, Rubigo, sago, Sargo, Sego, Serpigo, Solidago, sorgo, Squintifego, Stingo, Subimago, Suffrago, supercargo, tango, Tongo, Tschego, Virago, Vitiligo. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: goad. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-o" | |
-1 letter: ado, ago, dag, dog, gad, goa, god. | |
-2 letters: ad, ag, do, go, od. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-o" | |
+1 letter: dagos, dogma, donga, goads, gonad, pagod. | |
+2 letters: adagio, algoid, bandog, bodega, dagoba, dagoes, dialog, dogear, dogmas, dognap, dongas, dosage, dotage, dragon, gadoid, ganoid, gaoled, goaded, goaled, goddam, gonads, hagdon, lapdog, ogdoad, pagoda, pagods, seadog, togaed. | |
+3 letters: aboding, adagios, adoring, agatoid, aground, bandogs, bodegas, bondage, cantdog, congaed, cordage, dadoing, daglock, dagobas, dagwood, dayglow, daylong, decagon, decalog, demagog, dialogs, doating, dockage, dogbane, dogcart, dogears, dogface, dogmata, dognaps, dogvane, dongola, dosages, dotages, dowager, dragons, dragoon, fagoted, foraged, gadoids, gadroon, galoped, gambado, ganoids, garoted, geoidal, gloated, goading, goateed, goddamn, goddams, godhead, goldarn, goliard, gonadal, gonadic, gondola, gonidia, goodman, gormand, gowaned, groaned, hagdons, hagrode, hangdog, hidalgo, homaged, lapdogs, loading, mangold, megapod, ogdoads, organdy, outdrag, pagodas, pedagog, podagra, sandhog, seadogs, tangoed, togated, valgoid, voyaged, wagoned, wordage. | |
+4 letters: adopting, adorning, agalwood, agonised, agonized, amidogen, androgen, anglepod, avoiding, boarding, bondages, cantdogs, collaged, cordages, daglocks, dagwoods, dayglows, decagons, decalogs, demagogs, demagogy, derogate, diagnose, diagonal, dialoged, dialoger, dialogic, dialogue, digamous, dockages, dogbanes, dogcarts, dogeared, dogfaces, dogmatic, dognaped, dognaper, dogvanes, dogwatch, donating, dongolas, dowagers, dragoman, dragomen, dragonet, dragoons, dragrope, endogamy, faggoted, fandango, foliaged, gabbroid, gadabout, gadroons, gadzooks, galloped, galopade, galoshed, gambados, gamboled, gammoned, gamodeme, garboard, gardyloo, garotted, garroted, gatefold, gavotted, gheraoed, gladiola, gladioli, gladsome, globated, goadlike, goalward, goatherd, goddamns, godheads, golconda, goldarns, goliards, gonadial, gondolas, gonidial, gormands, gourmand, grandson, gyroidal, haggadot, hangdogs, headlong, hidalgos, highroad, hoarding, hogshead, hydragog, idealogy, ideogram, iodating, jargoned, largando, loadings, longhand, longhead, mangolds, marigold, megadose, megapode, megapods, montaged, odograph, offguard, ondogram, organdie, outdrags, outraged, overaged, overglad, overgoad, pagandom, pedagogs, pedagogy, pegboard, podagral, podagras, podagric, pomading, portaged, postgrad, poundage, prodigal, prograde, quandong, radioing, ragouted, renegado, rigadoon, rigaudon, sandhogs, solidago, tagboard, toadying, vagabond, waggoned, watchdog, waterdog, wordages. | |
+5 letters: abounding, abrogated, according, adjoining, adoringly, adsorbing, affording, agalwoods, alongside, amidogens, androgens, androgyne, androgyny, anglepods, anodizing, arrogated, audiogram, audiology, bandwagon, begroaned, boardings, bodyguard, brocading, cataloged, cladogram, clangored, cogitated, coheading, coleading, comanaged, congealed, cordgrass, corrading, dangerous, deaconing, decalogue, decoupage, defoaming, delegator, demagoged, demagogic, demagogue, deprogram, derogated, derogates, diagnosed, diagnoses, diagnosis, diagonals, dialogers, dialoging, dialogist, dialogued, dialogues, dichogamy, dodecagon, dodgeball, dogearing, dogmatics, dogmatism, dogmatist, dogmatize, dognapers, dognaping, dognapped, dognapper, doughface, downgrade, downrange, downstage, dragomans, dragonets, dragonfly, dragonish, dragooned, dragropes, elongated, embargoed, fandangos, floodgate, gadabouts, gadrooned, gallopade, galopades, gambadoes, gambolled, gammadion, gamodemes, garboards, garderobe, gargoyled, garrotted, gasconade, gasholder, gastropod, gatefolds, gazehound, genocidal, girandole, gladiator, gladiolas, gladiolus, gladsomer, gladstone, glamoured, glissando, glochidia, goatherds, goddammed, goddamned, godfather, godparent, golcondas, goliardic, goosander, gourmands, gradation, graduator, grandiose, grandioso, grandsons, granitoid, guardroom, haggadoth, highroads, hoardings, hogsheads, hydragogs, idealogue, ideograms, ideograph, iguanodon, indagator, logaoedic, longhands, longheads, marigolds, megadoses, megapodes, mortgaged, nonfading, nongraded, noseguard, obligated, odographs, ondograms, orangeade, ordaining, organdies, organised, organized, outadding, outargued, outdaring, outdating, outgained, outgassed, outglared, outgnawed, outranged, overgoads, oxidating, pagandoms, paragoned, pardoning, parodying, pedagogic, pedagogue, pegboards, postgrads, poundages, prodigals, programed, quandongs, radiogram, radiology, reloading, renegados, rigadoons, rigaudons, sabotaged, sangfroid, shadowing, sigmoidal, signboard, solidagos, staghound, tagboards, unloading, uploading, vagabonds, watchdogs, waterdogs. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 61 67 6F |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .- --. --- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100001 01100111 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a g o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061 0067 006F |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38677381 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Frequency | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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