Spy is incorrectly written and it should be written as "40 Mangiare; in Italian )" being its meaning:
It is a colloquial saying in several Latin American countries, but especially where there are large Italian colonies, eating, eating ( Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Venezuela ). It is a deformation or muteness of the Italian language 40 mangiare word; pronounced manyare ). It can not be considered Manger in French, because the pronunciation is I manyé.
Lunfardo is eating. The Italian mangiare ( manyiare, " eat " ) or perhaps the catalan delicacy, with the same meaning. The Italian phrase '' mangiare 39 foglia; ( " eat sheet " ) appears the meaning of streaked as assimilate an idea or knowledge, a fact that we will save; It is said that it comes from the Odyssey, when Ulysses is the magic of Circe eating a magical sheet supplied by the god Hermes.
