Lazzarone

Quick meaning: Lazzarone is a noun meaning (historical, chiefly in the plural) One of the poorer classes of Neapolitans; a chance-worker or beggar.

Meaning

(historical, chiefly in the plural) One of the poorer classes of Neapolitans; a chance-worker or beggar.

Example Sentences

[…] Brighton, a clean Naples with genteel lazzaroni—[…]

[…] attended by one or two of his band, who intended leaving off business and turning lazzaroni, they all set off for Naples, which they found in an uproar.

What does he mean by his Rights of Man, and his equality?—What wretched and dangerous doctrine to diſſeminate among the lazzaroni* of England, where they are always ready enough to murmur againſt their betters?

Marcher said to himself that he ought to have rendered her some service - saved her from a capsized boat in the bay, or at least recovered her dressing bag, filched from her cab, in the streets of Naples, by a lazzarone with a stiletto.

Word Forms

• lazzarones
• lazzaroni

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include neapolitan, lazarone, lush-worker, latron, ladrone, lusk.

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