Capisce
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Capisce is an Italian word that initially became popular in English in the 1940s, popularized by Italian immigrants in America's eastern cities and by use in onscreen portrayals of Italian-Americans, often in organized crime roles.
It means "Get it?" and comes from the Italian the verb capire, to understand. It is commonly mispelled and mispronounced, and has been rendered in English as "coppish," "capeesh," and "kapish,"[1] among other variations. Confusion about its meaning is memorably recorded in an episode of The Simpsons, in which a hardboiled supermarket security guard appends it to a warning to Bart.[2]
It was used in the 1937 film Ali Baba Goes to Town in a slightly different manner - "Capisce Italian?"[3] It was also used in the films Bound[4], Zoolander[5], and The Rookie[6], among others.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kapish
- ^ http://www.lardlad.com/assets/quotes/season7/proud.shtml
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028566/quotes
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115736/quotes
- ^ http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/z/zoolander-script-transcript-ben-stiller.html
- ^ http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/r/rookie-script-transcript-clint-eastwood.html
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