Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Eyetie adj.

1886		Belmont Chron. (St Clairsville, OH) 1 Apr. 4/3: They tell me [...] this is an Eye-talian show. Now I can’t talk Eye-talian and don’t understand it.
1909		Goodwin’s Wkly (UT) 14 Aug. 17/2: M. Anthony., the Eyetalian ambassador.
1922		Joyce Ulysses 308: The signor Brini from Summerhill, the eyetallyano papal zouave to the Holy Father.
1922		S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 58: I need your fine Eyetalian hand.
1943		M. Curtiss Letters Home (1944) 6 Aug. 220: My closest buddy [...] can speak ‘Eyetie’ lingo.
1944		L. Glassop We Were the Rats 170: No chance of finding any of that Eyetie cognac we used to get blind on?
1946		G. Gibson Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 199: We had been trying to prevent the Itie fleet from interfering.
1954		K. Amis letter 27 Oct. in Leader (2000) 410: Do you think you could get the Froggy and Eyeteye advances off to me.
1959		A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 58: I can’t stand these goddam Eyetie dramatics.
1959		C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 100: I sat on the grass, and took off my nylon stretch and Itie clogs [...] and stepped into the drink.
1960		J. Iggulden Storms of Summer 71: You see any Eyetie boats where you where today?
1960		‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 17: ‘It is an English ship.’ ‘Better find an Itie one, well.’.
1966		P. Larkin letter 13 Aug. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 385: Kingsley is summering (bummering?) on some southern isle: just for a handful of Eytie tit he left us.
1967		P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 33: Playing? Playing got all that dirt in your eyes? I bet my ass. Them damn Ee-ta-liano kids ganged up on you again.
1971		(con. WWII) B. Aldiss Soldier Erect 137: And fucking well fucking the I-tie girls!
1974		G.M. Fraser McAuslan in the Rough 16: Mussolini, big Eyetie git!
1977		(con. 1941) R. Beilby Gunner 4: If she wasn’t pure Wog then she was Wog with French or Itie cross.
1984		A. Sayle Train to Hell 61: You silly Eytie bastard.
1997		‘Q’ Deadmeat 31: He’d got into a rumble with some Eyetalian nightclub owners.
1998		I. Welsh Filth 243: This Dr Rossi cunt fancies himself. Swarthy eyetie bastard.
2000		Guardian Guide 22–28 Jan. 28: You sneery I-Tie Frappaccino poncebag.
2001		K. Waterhouse Soho 109: Baldini’s, he surmised, would be Eye-tie.
2012		(con. 1980s) I. Welsh Skagboys 23: Ah always kenta he was-ah sinner, she says in her halting Schemie-Eyetie accent.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 630: You can pop out for an Eyetie ice cream whenever you like.