A Dictionary of Epithets and Terms of Address
An insulting term for an Italian, used since the beginning of the twentieth century.
It is said to derive from guappo, meaning ‘dandy, dude, stud’, used as a greeting by male Neapolitans to one another. ‘You dirty Wop’ is used in anger by a woman to an Italian in Daughters of Mulberry, by Roger Longrigg. ‘You wretched, gutless wop’ is used insultingly in Stop at Nothing, by John Welcome.
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