How do you pronounce "CIAFFONE"?

Question

is it a thing?

popular last name

adjective

or is just nothing

Answer 1

it could be caffone, which means jerk

Answer 2

maybe you want to say "Cafone"?

in English "rude"

Answer 3

it is pronounced chi-af-fo-neh and it is nothern dialect for saying slap. usually you say ceffone (chef-fo-neh). it could theoretically be a surname, but i have never heard of it.

Answer 4

Pronounce it chahf- fòh-ne (stress on the "o" and double "f" sounds as in English 'affairs- the chah sounds as in English the cha of charter).

"Ciaffone" is an Italian slang term ,widespreaded in Italy, and it means slap (in the face). The corresponding word in standard Italian is "ceffone" or "schiaffo" -

Answer 5

Ciaffone is a surname

but I believe that you say SCHIAFFONE(a big slap)

Answer 6

i'm tuscan and it seems from my region...

It means big slap

for the pronunciation let's try this

CIA= tcha like in "gotcha!"

FFO= fo from "foreign" but remember to pronunciate double F

NE= like the first part of "net" or "nest"

Answer 7

ciaffone doesn't exist in italian

Answer 8

Maybe you mean CEFFONE or SCHIAFFONE, they both mean "big slap". Never heard of something/someone called ciaffone.

Answer 9

It could be a last name

Answer 10

maybe you meant "CEFFONE", it's a unformal way to say " backhanded slap". Or it could be (not very probable) a dialectal word...

[ dite che è dialetto? ma di dove?]

Answer 11

Hi... Ciaffone is a dialect word that means slap...

It's used in some part of northern Italy so maybe some Italians can't know it!! Sorry for my English but I hope that now everything is clear!!! Saluti dall'Italia :)

Answer 12

maybe you want to say "Ceffone", in English "Slap"