punchinello
Example Sentences
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Like a maddened punchinello, he flailed at the gathering crowds of refugees, screaming at them to back away from the bank.
From Time Magazine Archive
No sympathy, no best wishes rose to greet brown, broad-shouldered Champion Max Baer as that prime poseur, playboy and punchinello of the U. S. prize ring parted the ropes.
From Time Magazine Archive
A punchinello jarred against him with: “Pardonnez moi, pardie!”
From The Strollers by Fisher, Harrison
Throughout the volumes of the Diary there are few things of which he speaks with franker and more enthusiastic delight than the enjoyment which he derives from punchinello.
From Among Famous Books by Kelman, John
Far-sighted folks became aware that the pretty tricks of the puppets were due to an English punchinello.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
