punchinello

Example Sentences

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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

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

It was as though a parrot or a punchinello spoke, and sentences which were unexpected could not be understood.

From Heroes of the Telegraph by Munro, John

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

The people who had crowded in to look at him began to laugh when they saw how small he was, how pale and ugly like a punchinello.

From Under the Shadow of Etna Sicilian Stories from the Italian of Giovanni Verga by Verga, Giovanni