coatto
🇮🇹 Italian slang from Rome
What does “coatto” mean?
chav; tacky
Example
“Ma come te vesti? Sembri 'n coatto!”
What are you wearing? You look like a chav!
Good to know
Roman equivalent of 'tamarro'. Mildly derogatory, sometimes proudly self-applied.
Who you can say it to
With friends, not your boss
🙄 Teasing
The textbook way to say it: pacchiano
Heard in a conversation
Saturday night in Trastevere
Giulia Ammazza, pensi sempre a magnà! Va bene, supplì e poi birra.
Wow, you're always thinking about food! Fine, supplì and then beer.
Edoardo Aò, guarda quer tizio co' la Lambo. Che coatto!
Hey, look at that guy with the Lambo. Such a show-off!
Giulia Lascia perde. Mo' fa caciara co' la musica a palla.
Forget it. Now he's making a racket with the music at full blast.
🕶️ How other countries say “tacky show-off (a chav)”
- 🇮🇹 tamarroItaly
- 🇮🇹 tascioNaples
- 🇮🇹 zarroMilan
More from Rome
- rosicareto be salty; jealous
- sticazziwho gives a damn
- pischellokid; youngster
- mortacci tuadamn you!
- pippauseless (at something)
- de cocciothick-headed; stubborn
- pidocchiosostingy, tight-fisted
- dajecome on!; let's go!
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