Punchinello

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 337 words | Copyright

Punchinello principal character in an Italian puppet show. XVII. Current from the outset in two main forms Policinello and Punchinello (with vars. in Pon-, -elle). — Naepolitan dial. Polecenella, in literary It. Pulcinella, perh. based on dim. of pollecena young of the turkey-cock (whose hooked beak the nose of Punch resembles).

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