pizza nigger

English

Etymology

From pizza (a popular food associated with Italy) +‎ nigger (a derogatory term for people, particularly black people in the United States). With regard to food, compare macaroni, pizzahead, and spaghetti. With regard to skin color, compare guinea, white nigger, and wog.

Noun

pizza nigger (plural pizza niggers)

  1. (rare, slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.
    • 2001, Rush Limbush, “Re: Note To PI Comic”, in alt.comedy.standup (Usenet):
      I've seen the Godfather 27 times and every time some wasp gets wacked by one of those pizza niggers.
    • 2007, Vahan Gregory, Where the Sun Don't Shine, page 42:
      He brought the two mugs to the table. “Carmine says to lay off your two pizza niggers.”
    • 2012, @ceruleanescape:
      happy birthday to the best Dago/Goombah/Wop/Pizza Nigger around[.]

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