bauscia
🇮🇹 Italian slang from Milan
What does “bauscia” mean?
show-off; braggart
Example
“Non fare il bauscia, nessuno ci crede.”
Stop bragging, nobody believes you.
Good to know
Milanese dialect, literally 'drool'. Also a teasing nickname for Inter fans.
Who you can say it to
With friends, not your boss
🙄 Teasing
The textbook way to say it: spaccone
Heard in a conversation
Aperitivo on the Navigli
Ale Taac! Ci sto. Ho lavorato a bestia tutta la settimana.
Boom! I'm in. I've worked like crazy all week.
Giacomo Grande. Però niente posti da bauscia, che poi spendi venti euro per uno spritz.
Great. But no show-off places, then you spend twenty euros on a spritz.
Ale Tranqui, conosco un posto: dieci euro, spritz e buffet infinito.
Chill, I know a place: ten euros, spritz and an endless buffet.
🦚 How other countries say “show-off / to show off”
- 🇮🇹 guappoNaples · Also: a tough guy.
- 🇮🇹 fare il figoItaly
More from Milan
- zarrochav; tacky show-off
- sciuraposh older lady
- pirlaidiot; jerk
- imbruttitostressed, hustling Milanese
- sbarbatoa kid, a young guy with no experience
- marpionesmooth operator, a player
- braccino cortostingy (lit. "short little arm")
- fuori come un balconetotally nuts
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