mafiosa

plural mafiosas

1. Alternative letter-case form of Mafiosa.

   Signora Soprano is a neighborhood Italian girl who knew exactly what she was getting into when she married Tony and is not above acting like a mafiosa herself when it suits her.

   2006 January 10, George De Stefano, “From Mean Streets to Suburban Meadow: The Sopranos Rewrites the Genre”, in An Offer We Can’t Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America, New York, N.Y.: Faber and Faber, Inc., →ISBN, page 157

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   “Do our girls really have that much power?” Annelise asked. “Where do they get it from?” / “Maybe it’s our fault,” I said. “Is there a feminine for mafiosos? Mafiosas? Because apparently that’s what we are, the Mothers’ Mafia. “I also had seen this in one of the books on raising teenagers. “Conspiring to keep unworthy children from being included in birthday parties, play dates, and Scout troops.”

   2006 March 21, Kathleen Gilles Seidel, chapter 2, in A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 33

   Turns out ol’ Larry here was having a thing with a mafiosa down in Jersey City. Watched too many episodes of The Sopranos or something. Needless to say, Mr. Mafioso wasn’t too happy when he came home and found Larry shtupping his wife.

   2009, Dale Peck, Body Surfing, New York, N.Y.: Atria Books, →ISBN, page 197

   “What do you think, sweetie?” “I think your mother and sister are mafiosas, they’re so damn good in business. It makes sense, too. I think Steven will agree. I mean, Steven knows talent when he sees it, so does Amy. But Baby, it’s your company.[…]”

   2011 May 27, Trudie-Pearl Sturgess, chapter 20, in Forever Never Dies, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 215

   “You better keep out of my way, mafiosa, otherwise, you would get sorryed.” Bob said. […] “[…] Try to be a little clever; you know everybody who is living on this land has to be good to each other, DEA, CIA, FBI, El Paso PD, Customs, Border control or any mafioso likes^([sic]) us are all the same, to live or die, on this side of El Paso or on the other side of Juarez; Try for not hit bad lucky and be a good boy, then you could live longer…; you got it. I am just warming you now, next time you won't be so easy…” the mafiosa cut the line off. “Hey, what a fucking hell world we are living, I am an American white citizen, a fucking dark Latina Mexicana is teaching me how” to do on my land.?” […] “Look, how a mafiosa gangster is teaching me American history.” Bob said.

   2015, Jings Chen, South Texas Never Raided, Partridge Publishing, →ISBN

   When Camassa asked why she had acted like that, Rita replied indignantly, ‘Signora, I am not a mafiosa and have never been, and so I can collaborate with the law. But Spatola is a mafioso, and so is a traitor, and I don’t talk to traitors.’

   2017, Milka Kahn, Anne Véron, Women of Honor: Madonnas, Godmothers and Informers in the Italian Mafia, London: C. Hurst & Co., →ISBN

plural Mafiosas · alternative mafiosa

1. uncommonA female member of the Mafia.

   But the women remain deputies or stand-ins. So far there has not been a Mafiosa who has made it to the top on her own.

   1998, World Press Review, volume 45, page 43, column 2

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   Once the steam-roller was started nothing could stop it. It crushed indifferently men of ideas and the Mafiosa, sixty-two-year-old “Queen of Ganci.”

   1928 March 7, John Di Gregorio, “Mussolini and the Mafia”, in The Nation: A Weekly Journal Devoted to Politics, Literature, Science, Drama, Music, Art, Industry, volume CXXVI, number 3270, New York, N.Y.: The Nation, Inc., […], page 264, column 1

   One theme that clearly appeared among Mafiosas was control—or their lack of it. In this context, women fared as best they could, often becoming helpmates in their men’s criminal activities.

   2011, Fred W. Viehe, “The Underworld Never Seemed So Fair: Women as Pirates, G’hals, Mafiosas and Gangsteristas”, in The International Journal of the Humanities, volume 9, number 3, Altona, Vic.: Common Ground, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 65

   Shortly before locking hour the Mafiosas or sisters, as they called themselves (of course many PCC members were still in prison and for those who were taken to other jails new ones came), which controlled the cell occupancy, negotiated with Gislane and Raposa.

   2011 October 24, Rita Embalo, “Mega-rebellion”, in Final Stop Brazil: Life after Hell, [Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], →ISBN, page 72

   Ninetta had grown up in a Mafia village, her family was Mafia, and she had fallen in love with a Mafioso. And she was a Mafiosa herself.

   2015, Attilio Bolzoni, Giuseppe D’Avanzo, translated by Shaun Whiteside, The Boss of Bosses: The Life of the Infamous Totò Riina, Dreaded Head of the Sicilian Mafia, London: Orion Books, →ISBN

   Plotted from the beginning fitting a plan for a Mafioso dictator / Never deviating from the decision to be the first for a throwaway bride / Whims and whimsical thinking guides the denial of the Mafiosa.

   2019, Rosemarie M. Neilson, “The Throwaway Bride”, in Terrible Trauma Like a Poem, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN