My grandfather was known in Avigliano as "Minga Motts". The spelling might be incorrect, but has anyone heard the phrase?
Hopefully, I wont regret asking the definition
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A number of google results indicate that "minga" is Italian slang for a stupid or annoying person. One indicates it is actually from a term for a body part; I am thinking maybe a 7 letter word beginning with a and ending with e perhaps?
Motts might be mazza? http://www.wordreference.com/iten/mazza
Altogether, a guy with a stick up his ...
Sorry. Just some wild speculation.
Motts might be mazza? http://www.wordreference.com/iten/mazza
Altogether, a guy with a stick up his ...
Sorry. Just some wild speculation.
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Carmine,
I thought the reference was something along those lines.
I never met him, so I'll never really know.
I thought the reference was something along those lines.
I never met him, so I'll never really know.
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My two cents is that he might have been called "minchia mozza" which is a cruel way of calling someone with a minuscule male organ, it literally means: "cut-off penis" 8O
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Rough town! 8O
My Italian surnames:
Caserta: Maietta, Rossano, Tessitore, Negro, Peluso, Musone
Campobasso: D'Andrea, Barile
Catanzaro: Fiorelli/Fiorillo, Romito
Caserta: Maietta, Rossano, Tessitore, Negro, Peluso, Musone
Campobasso: D'Andrea, Barile
Catanzaro: Fiorelli/Fiorillo, Romito
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Maybe it just meant his wife ran the house hahaha