CAPISCE

Etymology

Interjection

capisce?

(slang) “Get it?”; “understood?”.

Usage notes

• Often used in a threatening manner, in imitation of the way the Italian Mafia is often portrayed in popular culture and entertainment media.

• Without a question mark at the end, it is sometimes used to mean, “I understand”, as an American colloquialism. In Italian, that would actually mean “he/she/it understands” or a formal “you understand”. To mean “I understand”, one would actually say capisco.

Anagrams

• ice caps, ice-caps, icecaps, ipecacs

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

28 November 2024

SYNCRETISM

(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)


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