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"etymology_text": "From Italian, + -ie.",
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"ref": "1944, Lawson Glassop, We were the rats",
"text": "The only danger of gas from the Eyeties was when they breathed garlic on you.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1944, Richard Baxter, Stand by to surface",
"text": "We got out to sea again, but it was not long before the Eyeties were on our track again.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1977, Roald Dahl, The Swan",
"text": "The Frenchies eat 'em [small birds] and so do the Eyeties.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1986, Aidan Chambers, Dance on My Grave",
"text": "D'you think they're Eyeties? Supposed to be great lovers...",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Zadie Smith, NW",
"text": "'Someone give this girl the bumps! She's getting married. Ah, the good die young. What's his name again? Francesco. An eye-tie? I move for a mistrial.",
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"sense": "person of Italian descent",
"word": "dago"
},
{
"sense": "person of Italian descent",
"word": "goombah"
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{
"sense": "person of Italian descent",
"word": "greaseball"
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{
"sense": "person of Italian descent",
"word": "guido"
},
{
"sense": "person of Italian descent",
"word": "guinea"
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{
"sense": "person of Italian descent",
"word": "wog"
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"sense": "person of Italian descent",
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"word": "eye-tie"
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"ref": "1944, Lawson Glassop, We were the rats",
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"ref": "1944, Richard Baxter, Stand by to surface",
"text": "We got out to sea again, but it was not long before the Eyeties were on our track again.",
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"text": "D'you think they're Eyeties? Supposed to be great lovers...",
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"sense": "person of Italian descent",
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"sense": "person of Italian descent",
"word": "greaseball"
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"sense": "person of Italian descent",
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"word": "eye-tie"
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