quattrocchi
See also: Quattrocchi and quattr'occhi
Italian
editEtymology
editFrom quattro (“four”) + occhi (“eyes”), as used in the expression a quattr'occhi (“in private”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editquattrocchi m or f by sense (invariable)
- (colloquial, informal, often derogatory) four-eyes (person who wears glasses)
- Synonym: occhialuto
- 2000, Daniel Picouly, La luce della follia, tr. by Annamaria Ferrero, Feltrinelli, →ISBN, page 131:
- La quattrocchi la guardava dall'alto come una ginecologa delle tonsille.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2015, Antonio Romano, Mentir da gentildonne, self-published, →ISBN:
- Con inaspettate grazia, il professore dirigeva la danza con un ragazzo bellissimo. Darà lezioni pensò la quattrocchi.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (ornithology, masculine only) a goldeneye, especially the common goldeneye (Bucephala clangula)
- quattrocchi d'Islanda ― Barrow's goldeneye (Bucephala islandica)
- quattrocchi minore ― bufflehead (Bucephala albeola)
- 1995, Giovanni Caniato, Eugenio Turri, Michele Zanetti, La laguna di Venezia, Unesco, page 121:
- Tra gli anatidi figurano il quattrocchi (Bucephala clangula), svernante in laguna in branchi di modesta entità, (...)
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
edit- ^ quattrocchi in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
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