'o ragù
🇮🇹 Italian slang from Naples
What does “'o ragù” mean?
slow-cooked Sunday meat sauce
Example
“'A dummeneca 'a mamma fa 'o ragù.”
On Sundays mum makes ragù.
Good to know
It "pippia": simmers for hours.
Who you can say it to
Fine with anyone
🌮 Food
The textbook way to say it: sugo di carne
Heard in a conversation
Dinner with Mamma
Assunta Gennà, scetate! È pronto 'o ragù!
Gennà, wake up! The ragù is ready!
Gennaro Arrivo, mammà! Tengo fame assaje!
Coming, Mum! I'm starving!
More from Naples
- tengo fameI'm hungry
- 'na birrettaa quick beer
- il limoncellolemon liqueur
- la pizza a portafogliostreet pizza folded in four
- la sfogliatellashell-shaped flaky pastry with ricotta
- 'o cuoppopaper cone of fried food
- 'na tazzulella 'e cafèa little cup of coffee
- il caffè sospesoa "suspended" coffee, paid ahead for a stranger
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