cumenda
🇮🇹 Italian slang from Milan
What does “cumenda” mean?
a rich, self-important businessman
Example
“Al ristorante c'era il solito cumenda col Rolex.”
At the restaurant there was the usual big-shot with a Rolex.
Good to know
Milanese for "commendatore", an honorary title. Always a bit mocking.
Who you can say it to
With friends, not your boss
💼 Work💸 Money
The textbook way to say it: imprenditore ricco
Heard in a conversation
Strike day: no metro
Francesca Sei un mito. Il mio capo è un imbruttito: se arrivo tardi mi uccide.
You're a legend. My boss is a stressed-out hustler: if I'm late he'll kill me.
Giorgio Tipico. Il mio invece è un cumenda, arriva sempre alle undici.
Typical. Mine, on the other hand, is a big-shot boss, he always rolls in at eleven.
Francesca Ahah. Occhio, c'è il ghisa che fa le multe in doppia fila.
Haha. Careful, the traffic cop is fining double-parked cars.
More from Milan
- taac!boom!; done!
- imbruttitostressed, hustling Milanese
- ci aggiorniamolet's touch base (office goodbye)
- esauritoburnt out, frazzled
- il tavoloa reserved table with bottles at a club
- i danéemoney (Milanese)
- gli sgheimoney, dosh (northern Italy)
- braccino cortostingy (lit. "short little arm")
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