mafiosa

See also: Mafiosa

English

Noun

mafiosa (plural not attested)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Mafiosa.
   • 2006, 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:

     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.

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

     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.

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

     “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.

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

   • 2019, Dorothy Louise Zinn, Raccomandazione: Clientelism and Connections in Italy (European Anthropology in Translation; 7), New York, N.Y.: Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 122:

     The shop owner commented on the episode in this way: / That Carla is a mafiosa. A downright mafiosa. Put this in your book, Dorothy. She comes here and tells me what discount I have to put on my merchandise. Who is she?

Italian

Noun

mafiosa f (plural mafiose)

1. female equivalent of mafioso

Adjective

mafiosa

1. feminine singular of mafioso

Portuguese

Adjective

mafiosa

1. feminine singular of mafioso

Spanish

Noun

mafiosa f (plural mafiosas)

1. female equivalent of mafioso

Adjective

mafiosa f

1. feminine singular of mafioso