Stugots.

I greatly enjoyed a social-media post I saw quoted by John McIntyre at Facebook as follows: The surge in white USians asking for guidance on using Arabic expressions is lovely. It’ll be so much fun to see the polyglot mashups. “Bubbelah, don’t let that pendejo bully push you around. Don’t worry about stugots. You got this, inshallah and the creek don’t rise.” The other terms were all familiar to me, but “stugots” was not (though I doubtless knew a couple of decades ago that, as Google reminds me, the name of Tony Soprano’s boat was The Stugots). Fortunately, oriundi_ has an Instagram clip explaining that it’s an insult (‘idiot, clown, jerk’) but can also be used to mean ‘nothing,’ and Fabio D’Aleo at Quora writes: Stugots is a translitteration to English spelling of the Neapolitan pronunciation of the Italian vulgar slang expression “sto cazzo”, literally meaning “this (my) cock”, with the conversion of C to G adding a further layer of uncouthness to the one of vulgarity. It is used…

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