guagliò
🇮🇹 Italian slang from Naples
What does “guagliò” mean?
kid; dude
Example
“Guagliò, vien' ccà!”
Hey kid, come here!
Good to know
Vocative of 'guaglione' (boy, young man). Feminine: 'guagliona'.
Who you can say it to
With friends, not your boss
🫂 Friends👋 Hellos
The textbook way to say it: ragazzo
Heard in a conversation
Christmas cribs on San Gregorio Armeno
Totò Azz, che bello! Ma costa trenta euro... chesta è cazzimma!
Wow, it's beautiful! But it costs thirty euros... that's sly!
Rosa Pe' Diego se paga qualsiasi cosa, guagliò!
For Diego you pay whatever it takes, kid!
Totò Va bene, ma tu m'accatti 'a sfogliatella. Chist'è 'o patto.
Fine, but you buy me the sfogliatella. That's the deal.
👦 How other countries say “boy, lad”
- 🇮🇹 fioeuMilan
- 🇮🇹 ragazzoItaly
More from Naples
- cumpàbuddy; mate
- uèhey!
- scugnizzostreet kid; urchin
- pazziàto joke around
- 'nciuciogossip; shady deal
- statte bbuonotake care
- comme staje?how are you?
- ce verimmosee you
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