Canada is quickly becoming Greater Northern California.

[Smitty-48]

Sounds like some serious Jabroni history going on in here.

I grew up in Corso Italia, I was a Giambrone, a Mangiacake, but one which was accepted by the Paisans as being ok, still not one of them, still a Cake, but not a bad one; Giambrone.

It can mean "fool" or it can mean "dude", depending on whether they like you or not.

Americans simply bastardized the Eye-Talian "Giambrone" (Jam-Broh-Nay) into "Jabroni".

But not recently, this was over a hundred years ago, the Rock did not invent the term.

[Smitty-48]

I would in fact submit; the way the kids these days use the term "bro", that's actually Eye-Talian slang, I would say that comes from Jam-Broh-Nay, not "Brother", because that's how the Paisans used it, "Bro" was the short form of Jam-Broh-Nay.

I was being called "Bro" long before it ever became a pop culture thing, like back in the 70's, and only by the Eye-Talians, Cakes never used that term, and they meant Jam-Broh-Nay, that's what Bro is in Paisanese, and the way it is used now, same inflection, same accent, is the Eye-Talian Way, Corso Italia.

[DrYouth]

Cool history lesson, bro...

Fuck urban dictionary.

From the streets.

I was a cake... so didn't hang with the ginos...

Eventually we formed a hybrid gang... with a bit of representation from all sides.
Cake, gino and Jamaican. But our gino didn't talk gino, and our Jamaican didn't talk patois either... everyone spoke cake.

[Smitty-48]

"Gino", short form of Giovanni, meaning the "The Tribe of John", is the Eye-Talian slang for "Noble", from the Greek "Eugenios".

The Eye-Talian noble names had "gino" at the end, it's like "von" in German, "from the House of"

[DBTrek]

Cool history lesson, bro...

Fuck urban dictionary.

From the streets.

I was a cake... so didn't hang with the ginos...

Eventually we formed a hybrid gang... with a bit of representation from all sides.
Cake, gino and Jamaican. But our gino didn't talk gino, and our Jamaican didn't talk patois either... everyone spoke cake.

Except for the Irish lads who spoke . . . . paddy cake.


... paddy cake.







... baker's man . . .

[Smitty-48]

"Gino" is like when you're all dressed up like a nobleman, fancy clothes, going out dancing, like Travolta in Saturday Night Fever, could be a compliment, if you're rockin it well, or could mean "Fop" is you're not pulling it off.

[Smitty-48]

Put it all in a sentence,

"Ayyo, look at dis fuckin' guy, whadda fuckin' Geeno, hey, kay katzu phai? Ya look like a Fanook, ya fuckin' Jam-Broh-Nay!"

[DrYouth]

Put it all in a sentence,

"Ayyo, look at dis fuckin' guy, whadda fuckin' Geeno, hey, kay katzu phai? Ya look like a Fanook, ya fuckin' Jam-Broh-Nay!"

That is for sure the gino they spoke at my high school... hilarious.
Never caught on to the Jambroni thing... lol

[DBTrek]

My first contract at Microsoft was with a guy named Jason Bowen. Due to the user naming conventions at MS his email addy was v-jabowe[at]microsoft.com.

Guess who got called “Jabroni” all Summer.

[Smitty-48]

Put it all in a sentence,

"Ayyo, look at dis fuckin' guy, whadda fuckin' Geeno, hey, kay katzu phai? Ya look like a Fanook, ya fuckin' Jam-Broh-Nay!"

That is for sure the gino they spoke at my high school... hilarious.
Never caught on to the Jambroni thing... lol

Notes;

"Che cazzo fai?" = literal translation "What's up with your dick?" = slang "What the fuck is up with you?"

"Fanook" = "Finocchio" literal translation "Fennel" = slang "Faggot"