Dago-tee (or dagotee)

22:01 Feb 25, 2008

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Textiles / Clothing / Fashion / Undershirts

English term or phrase: Dago-tee (or dagotee)

Context:
"wife beater", also wifebeater, and sometimes abbreviated as simply beater, is a controversial, sometimes pejorative slang term used in parts of North America, Australia and various other places to refer to a sleevless undershirt. Other terms are an A-shirt, tank top, singlet, or "muscle shirt" when worn as a sole, outer layer as opposed to being worn under another shirt. "Guinea-T" or ***"Dago tee"*** are colloquialisms for "wifebeater" used in the New York City area; these terms are also demeaning as reference slurs for Italian-Americans.

This paragraph contains about 8 terms used to refer to the concept of the undershirt. I need to translate all those terms to keep the stylistic and semantic variation in the text. I can manage some of them and I'll send the others in separate questions. I don't need the conceptual translation because ,as I mentioned, they all refer to the same item of clothing. your help is very much appreciated. The picture of this item is provided in the following link under the "A-shirt" section:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeveless_shirt#A-shirt

Neamaat Shehatah KudoZ activity Questions: 59 (3 open) (5 closed without grading) Answers: 199 Egypt
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Summary of answers provided

4 +1

فانلة داخلية بلا أكمام

AhmedAMS

قميص أو فانلة داخلية للرجال من أصل إيطالي

Doaa El Seify

شيال رجالي

Ehsan Chukro

الفانلة الحمالات

zi_neb

Discussion entries: 1

Answers

24 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

dago-tee (or dagotee) فانلة داخلية بلا أكمام

Explanation:

AhmedAMS
Russian Federation
Local time: 21:25
Native speaker of:

Arabic,

English
PRO pts in category: 16

1 hr confidence:

dago-tee (or dagotee) قميص أو فانلة داخلية للرجال من أصل إيطالي

Explanation:
dago T 29 up, 4 down

a sleeveless mens undershirt, apparently popular with men of Italian descent, sometimes called a Dago Teehttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dago T

Doaa El Seify
Canada
Local time: 11:25
Native speaker of: Arabic
PRO pts in category: 4

5 hrs confidence:

dago-tee (or dagotee) شيال رجالي

Explanation:
please refer to the link below.
thank you.

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Note added at 6 hrs (2008-02-26 04:06:59 GMT)
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أبو عنتر
http://www.alriyadh.com/2006/07/05/img/057192.jpg

Reference: http://www.daleen1.com/categories.php?cat_id=11

Ehsan Chukro
United States
Local time: 12:25
Native speaker of:

Arabic

10 hrs confidence:

dago-tee (or dagotee) الفانلة الحمالات

Explanation:
" وأصبح “الجيمنيزيوم” وإختصاره المصرى “الجيم” فى كل نجع ومنتجع فى مصر، أما الزى الرسمى للشباب المصرى “الروش” فقد تحول إلى التى شيرت الكت أو بالأصح الفانلة الحمالات!"

Example sentence(s):

السائق في منتصف الأربعينات اقرب إلي الخمسين بقميص لبني فاتح العلوية ليبرز طوق الفانلة الحمالات الناشعة بالعرق"
"فيصبح تدخينه و ارتدائه الفانلة الحمالات مبرراً لتبرز عضلات ذراعيه و يلهم الفتيات"

zi_neb
Belgium
Local time: 19:25
Native speaker of:

Arabic

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