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This is the term for "African Americans" used by most Italian-American males, myself included. I grew up hearing my father and grandfather using it all of the time, so it's only natural.
Newark used to be a nice place, but now there are too many mulignans.
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(n) (1) a variation of the Italian word for eggplant. (2) a person of direct African descent (a black person). Actually, this term has nothing to do with slavery, because Italians rarely if ever had black slaves, and most Italians were in favor of giving rights to blacks while the whites up in Northern Europe and America were still using blacks for labor and slave trades. The real origin of this slang word is unknown, but it is not as popular among Italians as the movies and white people suggest. Most people now that use the word "mooley" are white, not Italian.
Some Angry Guy: Yo, what's up with all these mulignans in my hood? Get outta here, ya mooley.
Some Guy With Sense: What the hell are you talking about? Stop saying "mooley", you asshole. You're not even Italian, you're white. And even if you were Italian, it be even more ignorant to be rascist towards blacks, considering Italians aren't white and are closely related to blacks. Italians and blacks should be brothers.
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A racially offensive term for a black person.( see also Mooley ) Deriving from the italian word for "eggplant". Many believe the comes from slave masters in italy calling them eggplants, because when the black folk were working in the fields their heads would only be showing thru the crops.
"look at dis mulignan ova here wit his grape soda and fried chicken."
"look at dat cooley on dat mooley"
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It is definitely not a Sicilian word because my Sicilian relatives never heard of it. Since they say my Italian is a Neapolitan dialect - even though my ancestors were from Sicily- I would say it is probably a Neapolitan expression.
However, it must not be strictly a racial slur, although I learned it as such.
The comic song, Pepino the Mouse, by Lou Monte, uses this word to describe Pepino. I doubt if Monte would have used it if it were only a racial slur. There must be some alternative meaning.
Lou Monte sang in the Calabrian, Neapolitian and Sicilian dialects.
"Dem mulignans are ruining everything."
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Slang for "brother" or "bro" used in the mafia/ gangster environment. Popularized by the TV-show " The Sopranos".
Yo mulignane, wanna go get some pasta?
We the mulignanes, we got them tommy guns.
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Mulignan was only used for eggplant in my Italian family. My grandparents immigrated from a small village outside of Benevento which is outside of Naples. My mom’s cousins in Italy laugh at my mom because nobody says Muignan for eggplant anymore.
In the United States, my Italian grandpa never called African Americans mulignan. My mom had never heard of that use. Grandpa referred to them as La Nera, The Blacks.
Mangiamo mulignan stasera. Let’s eat eggplant tonight.