eyetie

Maybe it's your Eyetie accent ...' 'Maybe.

"Thank you, Mr. Macdoo," said the floor valet, who was a Portugee or Eyetie or some other sort of swarthy unfortunate, "but I shouldn't drink on the job.

However, rather than this making his fellow officers fond of him they became increasingly irritated by him, often calling him a "wop" and an "Eyetie" and trying to get rid of him.

I admit to being biased due to a reasonable grasp of the language of Molière but my Eyetie is strictly music and restaurant level and my Spanish is Lone Ranger - I may struggle but I can generally sort out the out references to those tongues when they crop up.