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Definition of Dagoes
1. dago [n] - See also: dago
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dagoes
Literary usage of Dagoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rome in Ireland by Michael John Fitzgerald McCarthy (1904)
"Guess if these dagoes do get into a job along with Irishmen they have to be ...
The twelve dagoes ran to obey his orders, but they were not able to shift ..."
2. From Alien to Citizen: The Story of My Life in America by Edward Alfred Steiner (1914)
"Yes, I loike them better than the dagoes. The dagoes kind a goes against my blood.
... I'm not sayin' that there ain't good dagoes too, but they kind a go ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1891)
"Blows and kicks, indeed, are too common an experience with them for notice among "
dagoes." When a woman is seriously hurt, she simply keeps out of sight ..."
4. A Mainsail Haul by John Masefield (1913)
"And what with the vino and that there licker, he got them dagoes strung on ...
And that gang of dagoes they charters a brigantine —she'da Bible name to her ..."
5. Elements of Debating: A Manual for Use in High Schools and Academies by Leverett Samuel Lyon (1913)
"For instance, every spring for the last decade carloads of "dagoes" with their
... Last spring when the "dagoes" came the same complaints went up as usual, ..."
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