The meaning of Punchinello
Punchinello – definition
nounAnother name for punch4 (sense 1 of the noun).
nounA short, stout, comical-looking person.
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Word origin
mid 17th century: 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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