Terms for blacks in Italian

[r***@excite.com]

What is that derog. term for blacks they keep using - it sounds like
"Molignare" but I have no idea how to spell it.

[Greg Henry]

Post by r***@excite.com
What is that derog. term for blacks they keep using - it sounds like
"Molignare" but I have no idea how to spell it.

I'm not sure what language that term comes from, but my understanding is
that in English it means eggplant. And I believe it's pronounced
moo-lin-YON.

[Flagstaff Frank]

Post by Greg Henry

Post by r***@excite.com
What is that derog. term for blacks they keep using - it sounds like
"Molignare" but I have no idea how to spell it.

I'm not sure what language that term comes from, but my understanding is
that in English it means eggplant. And I believe it's pronounced
moo-lin-YON.

http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/mobspeak/index.shtml

[Jacques Guy]

Post by Flagstaff Frank
http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/mobspeak/index.shtml

Mulignan, eh? Well done. The dialect seems very similar
to Corsican. Napolitan, perhaps?

[Peter T. Daniels]

Post by Jacques Guy

Post by Flagstaff Frank
http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/mobspeak/index.shtml

Mulignan, eh? Well done. The dialect seems very similar
to Corsican. Napolitan, perhaps?

The New York crime families are popularly believed to derive from
Sicily.

[Greg Henry]

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[Flagstaff Frank]

Post by Greg Henry
Hmm. I'm half-right. Story of my fuckin' life!

Better'n being half a lefty ;)

[Jacques Guy]

Post by Greg Henry
I'm not sure what language that term comes from, but my understanding is
that in English it means eggplant. And I believe it's pronounced
moo-lin-YON.

As far as I know eggplant is "melanzana". <moo-lin-YON> could only be
Spanish: muliñón. The word is not in my Larousse Diccionario Usual.
If it does exist, it is probably derived from "mulo". Perhaps
you meant boon-YOOL (spelt bougnoule), one French slang term borrowed
from Wolof, in which language it does mean "black people".

[DaveD|||]

Post by r***@excite.com
What is that derog. term for blacks they keep using - it sounds like
"Molignare" but I have no idea how to spell it.

We used to say something like "ambriago tutson" as an insult instead of this
moolinre thing.

[Raider Dave]

It's pronounced "Butterhead"...

[Beacon_Mode]

Post by r***@excite.com
What is that derog. term for blacks they keep using - it sounds like
"Molignare" but I have no idea how to spell it.

He has a few good 'uns. Jamal Ginsberg - the hassidic homebwoy...AKA the
charcoal briquette.