mafiosa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mafiosas
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: “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.”
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 2009, Dale Peck, Body Surfing, New York, N.Y.: Atria Books, →ISBN, page 197:
text: “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.[…]”
ref: 2011 May 27, Trudie-Pearl Sturgess, chapter 20, in Forever Never Dies, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 215:
text: “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.
ref: 2015, Jings Chen, South Texas Never Raided, Partridge Publishing, →ISBN:
text: 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.’
ref: 2017, Milka Kahn, Anne Véron, Women of Honor: Madonnas, Godmothers and Informers in the Italian Mafia, London: C. Hurst & Co., →ISBN:
text: 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?
ref: 2019, Dorothy Louise Zinn, Raccomandazione: Clientelism and Connections in Italy (European Anthropology in Translation; 7), New York, N.Y.: Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 122:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Mafiosa.