Definitions for dagoes

dagoes da·go

Spelling: [dey-goh]
IPA: /ˈdeɪ goʊ/

Dagoes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 123 anagrams from letters in dagoes (adegos).

Definitions for dagoes

noun

  1. a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Italian or sometimes Spanish origin or descent.

Origin of dagoes

1715-25, Americanism; alteration of Diego Spanish: a given name

Examples for dagoes

"We are in a nest of the dagoes," cried young Potter, rather wildly.

There were Italians, the lower class known to the West as "dagoes."

So we sat, dry, upon the stools, listening to the dagoes fiddling on deck.

He was a big blue-eyed fellow, full of fun and fight, with a good natured contempt of the dagoes, and was a born leader.

It's close in along with them dagoes, an' the fresh air will fresh Mrs. Cheyne up.

The schooner's crew were four dagoes—deserters from some ship.

What had he, a British subject, to do with those dagoes who spoil the profession?

Down on the lower deck was a gang of second-class passengers, about forty of them, seemin' to be dagoes and the like.

They don't know him, and he'll just drop in to try and sell the dagoes some policy tickets.

The gang of dagoes got aboard, too, the general and me in the front car.

Word Value for dagoes
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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