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[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I was not aware fugazzi meant anything in Italian (and I'm a native speaker). I think it just sounds Italian. Maybe it's a last name.

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[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Interestingly Wiktionary weakly supports my hunch that it was a last name.

Uncertain; said to be of Mafia origin, from the Fugazy Continental limousine company in New York City which was owned by William “Bill” Fugazy, due to its cheesy “look like a rich guy” advertisements of the 1970s and 1980s, or its alleged poor business practices,[1] possibly influenced by Sicilian fu cazzu (“it was nothing”). The word was popularized by the film Donnie Brasco (1997), based on the book Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia (1987) by American former FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone (born 1939) who used the name “Donnie Brasco” as an undercover alias. First use in English appears c. 1974 in the novel Bones of Contention by Nicholas Gage. Adjective

fugazi

(US, slang) Fake. 
[–] SolacefromSilence@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

Thank you for the etymology :)