mangiasapone
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Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb-object compound, composed of mangia (“to eat”) + sapone (“soap”), from a joke about Southerners not knowing what soap is and thus eating it, based the stereotype of Southerners being dirty.
Noun[edit]
mangiasapone m or f by sense (invariable)
- (derogatory) a person from the South of Italy