punchinello

punchinello is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.A punch; a buffoon; originally, in a puppet show, a character represented as fat, short, and humpbacked. Spectator.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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