punchinello

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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

You take very little notice at the time: more of their quaint punchinello chinoiserie, you say.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth

She went to look for playthings—a punchinello, a collection of images, and spread them out on the bed in order to amuse him.

From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Flaubert, Gustave

A punchinello jarred against him with: “Pardonnez moi, pardie!”

From The Strollers by Fisher, Harrison