Portagee

plural Portagees · alternative Portugee

1. datedderogatoryethnicslurA person from Portugal or a person of Portuguese descent.

   The Portagee sighed happily. He was home again.

   1935, John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat, →ISBN

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   She lives in New Bedford, and her dad's not around much and her mum calls her boyfriend a Portagee, a fuckin' greenhorn, and she says, Ma, he's 3rd generation, but her mum just rolls her eyes and fixes a drink, fills her glass with ice from the icemaker they have, pours some bourbon from the bottle on the glass-and-mirror shelf above the sink, turns on one of the gold seahorse faucets just a swoosh, and goes into the living room with the paper.

   1993, Common Lives, Lesbian Lives- Issues 47-49, page 37

   What did the Portagee say when he opened a box of Cheerios? "Look, a box of doughnut seeds!"

   2002, Lanai Tabura, Augusto E. Tulba, Lanai and Angies Joke of the Day, →ISBN, page 40

   “You damn, dumb Portagee,” he was saying, “How could you have fallen for one of the oldest tricks in the book?

   2005, John A. Broussard, Death and Near Death: A Yoshinobu Mystery, →ISBN, page 121

comparative more Portagee · superlative most Portagee · alternative Portugee

1. datedderogatoryethnicslurPortuguese.

   Melvin has a very Portagee accent.

   2008, Mary Frosch, Coming of Age in the 21st Century: Growing Up in America Today

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   Did you hear about the man who was half Portagee and half Italian? He made himself an offer he couldn't understand.

   2006, Jerry Hopkins, The Da Lima Code, →ISBN, page 49

   The religious shrines that sprouted in front yards across St. Anthony's parish were too Portagee or greenhornish for my mother.

   2013, Joseph A. Conforti, Another City Upon a Hill: A New England Memoir, →ISBN