Mafiosa

See also: mafiosa

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Italian mafiosa.

Noun

Mafiosa (plural Mafiosas)

  1. (uncommon) A female member of the Mafia.
    Coordinate term: Mafioso
    • 1928 March 7, John Di Gregorio, “Mussolini and the Mafia”, in The Nation: A Weekly Journal Devoted to Politics, Literature, Science, Drama, Music, Art, Industry, volume CXXVI, number 3270, New York, N.Y.: The Nation, Inc., […], page 264, column 1:
      Once the steam-roller was started nothing could stop it. It crushed indifferently men of ideas and the Mafiosa, sixty-two-year-old “Queen of Ganci.”
    • 1998, World Press Review, volume 45, page 43, column 2:
      But the women remain deputies or stand-ins. So far there has not been a Mafiosa who has made it to the top on her own.
    • 2011, Fred W. Viehe, “The Underworld Never Seemed So Fair: Women as Pirates, G’hals, Mafiosas and Gangsteristas”, in The International Journal of the Humanities, volume 9, number 3, Altona, Vic.: Common Ground, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 65:
      One theme that clearly appeared among Mafiosas was control—or their lack of it. In this context, women fared as best they could, often becoming helpmates in their men’s criminal activities.
    • 2011 October 24, Rita Embalo, “Mega-rebellion”, in Final Stop Brazil: Life after Hell, [Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], →ISBN, page 72:
      Shortly before locking hour the Mafiosas or sisters, as they called themselves (of course many PCC members were still in prison and for those who were taken to other jails new ones came), which controlled the cell occupancy, negotiated with Gislane and Raposa.
    • 2015, Attilio Bolzoni, Giuseppe D’Avanzo, translated by Shaun Whiteside, The Boss of Bosses: The Life of the Infamous Totò Riina, Dreaded Head of the Sicilian Mafia, London: Orion Books, →ISBN:
      Ninetta had grown up in a Mafia village, her family was Mafia, and she had fallen in love with a Mafioso. And she was a Mafiosa herself.
    • 2019, Rosemarie M. Neilson, “The Throwaway Bride”, in Terrible Trauma Like a Poem, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
      Plotted from the beginning fitting a plan for a Mafioso dictator / Never deviating from the decision to be the first for a throwaway bride / Whims and whimsical thinking guides the denial of the Mafiosa.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.