English-Thai Dictionary
punchinello
N ตัวละคร ที่ หลัง ค่อม หรือ อ้วน ม่อต้อ ใน ละคร หุ่นกระบอก ของ อิตาลี
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
PUNCHINELLO
n.A punch; a buffoon.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
PUNCHINELLO
Pun `chi *nel "lo, n. Etym: [It. pulcinella, probably originally a word of endearment, dim. of pulcina, pulcino, a chicken, from L. pullicenus, pullus. See Pullet. ]
Defn: A punch; a buffoon; originally, in a puppet show, a character represented as fat, short, and humpbacked. Spectator.
New American Oxford Dictionary
Punchinello
Pun chi nel lo |ˌpənCHəˈnelō ˌpəntʃəˈnɛloʊ | ▶noun ( pl. Punchinellos ) another name for punch 4. • archaic a short, stout, comical-looking person. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: alteration of Neapolitan dialect Polecenella, perhaps a diminutive of pollecena ‘young turkey cock with a hooked beak, ’ from pulcino ‘chicken, ’ from Latin pullus .
Oxford Dictionary
Punchinello
Punchinello |ˌpʌn (t )ʃɪˈnɛləʊ | ▶noun ( pl. Punchinellos ) another name for punch 4 ( sense 1 ). • archaic a short, stout, comical-looking person. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: alteration of Neapolitan dialect Polecenella, perhaps a diminutive of pollecena ‘young turkey cock with a hooked beak ’, from pulcino ‘chicken ’, from Latin pullus .
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