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

He is neither a gentleman in manner nor in feeling, but a sort of buffoon, a punchinello, a pantaloon.

From Twenty Years After by Dumas père, Alexandre

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