wop

See also: woþ

English

From Neapolitan guappo (“dude, stud”), a greeting borrowed from Spanish guapo (“bold, handsome”).

wop (plural wops)

person of Italian descent

Bulgarian: жабар m (žabár)
Danish: spaghetti c, spaghettiæder c, sortsmudsker c
Dutch: spaghettivreter (nl) m, macaronivreter (nl) m, pizzavreter (nl) m
Estonian: makaroniõgija
Finnish: italiaano (fi), makaroni (fi), Luigi
French: rital (fr) m, macaroni (fr) m
German: Itaker (de) m, Itakerin f, Spaghettifresser (de) m, Spaghettifresserin f, Tschingg m (Switzerland, parts of Austria), Tschingili m (Baden), Itaka (de) m, f, Katzelmacher m, Katzelmacherin f
Alemannic German: Tschingg
Hungarian: digó (hu)

Japanese: ウォップ (woppu)
Korean: 이태리 놈 (Itaeri nom), 이탈리아 놈 (Itallia nom)
Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} gefker‎‎ (ku)
Polish: makaroniarz (pl) m
Portuguese: macarrone m, f, carcamano (pt) m, f, latacho m
Romanian: macaronar (ro) m
Russian: италья́шка m (italʹjáška)
Spanish: tano (es) m, tana (es) f (Argentina, Uruguay), espagueti (es) m, f, bachiche m, f (Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador), italianini m, f, bachicha (es) m, f (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru)
Swedish: spagge (sv) c, spaghettigubbe c

From Proto-Germanic *wōpaz (“clamour, weeping”).

wōp m

wop

transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

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