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单词 punchinello
释义

Punchinellon.

Brit. /ˌpʌn(t)ʃᵻˈnɛləʊ/, U.S. /ˌpən(t)ʃəˈnɛloʊ/
Forms:

α. 1600s Polichinelli, 1600s Polichinello, 1600s Pollichinella, 1600s– Polichinelle, 1700s–1800s Pulchinello, 1700s–1800s Pulcinello, 1800s Policinello.

β. 1600s Punchonello, 1600s Puntionella, 1600s–1700s Punchanello, 1600s–1700s Punchianello, 1600s–1800s Puncinello, 1600s– Punchinello, 1700s–1800s Ponchinello.

γ. 1600s Pugenello.

Also with lower-case initial.
Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian Policinella.
Etymology: < Italian regional (Naples) Policinella, the name of a character in the commedia dell'arte (1621; Italian Pulcinella ), probably < pollicino chick ( < post-classical Latin pullicenus : see poussin n.) + -ella -ella suffix, apparently so called from the croaking voice and hooked nose associated with the character. Compare French Polichinelle, the name of a character in the commedia dell'arte (1649), the name of a character in a puppet show (1680).In β forms with assimilation of -l- to the following -n-, perhaps after puncheon n.2 In most forms with alteration of ending after -ello suffix. In form Polichinelle in some examples probably after French Polichinelle. Various alternative etymologies (all more or less unlikely) have been suggested for Neapolitan Policinella. Some have sought to derive it from the name of a real person: F. Galiani ( Vocabolario delle parole del dialetto Napoletano (1789)) cites a certain comedian Puccio d'Aniello, originally a peasant of Acerra, near Naples, whose uncouth physiognomy is said to have served as the model for the mask of the character; another conjecture cites the name of one Paulo Cinella, said to have been a buffoon at Naples; it is perhaps worth noting that the byname or surname Pulcinello or Polsinelli is occasionally attested in Italian documents as early as the end of the 13th cent. Others, who have seen a Greek origin in commedia dell'arte, have sought (rather unconvincingly) to derive Policinella from Greek.
1. (The name of) a hook-nosed, humpbacked character in the commedia dell'arte and in a puppet show of Italian origin, the prototype and equivalent of the English Punch (Punch n.5 1a); a puppet representing this character; the show in which it features; †a human performer in the role of this character (obsolete rare).In quot. 1666 at β. : the puppeteer.The following quotations may refer to English performances of Pulchinello slightly earlier than the first occurrence of the word in English.
1662 S. Pepys Diary 9 May (1970) III. 80 Thence to see an Italian puppet play..which is very pretty, the best that very I saw.
1662 S. Pepys Diary 8 Oct. (1970) III. 216 The King, before whom the puppett plays I saw this summer in Covent garden are acted this night.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > puppetry > [noun] > character
Punchinello1662
Punch1681
Judy1812
scaramouch1815
swatchel1854
α.
1662 Ld. Chamberlain Order Nov. in E. B. Murrie Restoration Court Stage (1932) 116 Signor Bologna, alias Pollichinella.
1666 S. Pepys Diary 22 Aug. (1972) VII. 257 I with my wife..by coach to Moore fields and there saw ‘Polichinelle’, which pleases me mightily.
1668 S. Pepys Diary 2 May (1976) IX. 183 [At the Duke of York's playhouse] A little boy, for a farce, doth dance Polichinelli.
1766 S. Sharp Lett. from Italy 183 Mortified and provoked that a puppet-shew..should draw the attention of the people from the Gospel..he held up the crucifix, and called aloud..‘Here is the true Pulchinello.’
1798 T. Jones Memoirs (1951) 57 The favourite mask among those of the lower order..was that of the Neapolitan pulcinello.
1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. iv. 80 A long, grinning wooden figure, with great staring eyes, and the parrot nose of a pulcinello.
1880 J. L. Warren Guide Study Book-plates x. 110 Garnished about with festoons of roses, a branch of oak, mask and pulchinello, quiver and pan-pipe.
1897 Q. Rev. Oct. 331 They are simply Judy-puppets in the Policinello of conventionality.
1934 W. Gerhardie Resurrection xiv. 36 When I meet a vague acquaintance in the presence of others we laugh, for no reason, the laugh of complicity, of a polichinelle.
1998 Art Bull. 80 157/2 Others have suggested that the figure of the Polichinelle..may be a surrogate for the painter.
β. 1666 Overseers' Bks., St. Martins in-the-fields 29 Mar. Rec. of Punchinello, ye Italian popet-player, for his booth at Chareing Crosse £2 12 6.1673 R. Hooke Diary 12 Apr. (1968) 39 At Mr. Storys, Boyles, Punchanellos.a1680 S. Butler Satyr upon Ridiculous Imitation of French in Satires & Misc. Poetry (1928) 51 And the worst Drols of Punchinellos Were much th' ingeniouser Fellows.1728 J. Swift Mad Mullinix & Timothy in Intelligencer (1729) viii. 73 The World consists of Puppet-shows; Where petulant, conceited Fellows Perform the Part of Punchinelloes.1797 A. Radcliffe Italian III. i. 45 See! Signor, there is Punchinello.1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings I. xx. 142 Puncinello squeaked and beat his mistress at every corner.1867 Times 22 Jan. 1/4 The great depot for ventriloquists, magicians, illusionists, conjurors, Chinese juddlers, marionettes, Punchinello, [etc.].1952 M. Kennedy Troy Chimneys 140 I saw Ludovic at an upper window, hanging over the sill in a limp manner resembling a punchinello at a puppet show.1994 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 21 Nov. 14 Like the grotesque elongated nose, the character Punchinello exaggerated all disagreeable traits and bad habits.γ. 1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all v. 65 I know no way so proper for you as to turn Poet to Pugenello.1668 T. Shadwell Sullen Lovers v. 96 Enter a boy in the habit of Pugenello, and traverses the Stage.
2. A person, animal, or thing likened to Punchinello, esp. on account of being short and stout, or clownish. Cf. punch n.4 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > condition of being short and thick or broad > [noun] > object
punch1669
Punchinello1669
pudge1808
spuda1825
podge1834
the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > and broadness > person
knarc1405
hoddy-doddya1556
trunk1586
truncheon1601
stump1602
fubs1614
dumpling1617
punch1669
Punchinello1669
spud1688
knur1691
knurl1691
runt1699
squab1699
swad1706
humpty-dumpty1785
junt1787
knurlinga1796
pudge1808
stumpie1820
nugget1825
podge1834
dump1840
dumpy1868
pyknic1925
mesomorph1940
1669 S. Pepys Diary 20 Apr. (1976) IX. 528 Going away with extraordinary report of the proof of his gun, which, from the shortness and bigness, they do call ‘punchinello’.
1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 478 We have no fatted Swine, fatted Oxen or Punchonello's amongst us: neither have we any of Pharoah's lean Kine.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1770 I. 344 [W. Maxwell:] Being told that Gilbert Cowper called him the Caliban of literature; ‘Well, (said he [sc. Johnson],) I must dub him the Punchinello.’
1793 A. Young Example of France (ed. 2) 30 Should the dæmons of discord..bring Mr. Legislator Paine, (tired of being called the punchinello of the Convention), once more to Thetford, Sandwich, or Lewes.
1834 M. Howitt Sketches Nat. Hist. 13 Monkey, little merry fellow, Thou art Nature's Punchinello!
1859 J. W. De Forest Seacliff xv. 207 Does any one wonder that we both thought of Robert as the family punchinello, and not of Hunter, who was our real buffoon?
1925 Amer. Mercury Aug. 400/2 This fellow was hardly your yearning lover frustrated; no punchinello; but just a hunky in a steel mill.
1957 V. Nabokov Pnin iii. 66 The tongue (that punchinello in the troupe [of speech organs]).
1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 19 Oct. b1 Had Armstrong been merely Punchinello, he would have had little to say in his music.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, in the senses ‘of Punchinello’; ‘resembling (that of) Punchinello; foolish, ridiculous’.
ΚΠ
1783 M. Berry Jrnl. 25 Nov. (1865) I. 61 The church was darkened, and the scenery behind the show all lighted up in the exact style of a punchinello theatre.
1797 E. Burke Let. to Mrs. Crewe in Corr. (1844) IV. 417 The shame and misfortune of our country would make one almost mad, if these punchinello statesmen did not sometimes come out to make us laugh.
1856 H. Melville Piazza Tales 423 Musing, therefore, upon the purely Punchinello aspect of the human figure thus beheld.
1972 J. Aiken Butterfly Picnic iv. 62 Despite the Punchinello nose..the effect was one of immense charm.
1997 Financial Times (Nexis) 9 Oct. 15 That hunched body and scrunched Punchinello face are bearable when they are winding up..for a 120 mph comic serve.
C2.
Punchinello voice n. rare = Punch's voice n. at Punch n.5 Compounds 2.
ΚΠ
1853 W. O. Markham tr. J. Skoda Treat. Auscultation 283 The intensity of the râles..; the punchinello voice accompanying the pectoriloquy.
2005 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 6 Mar. 12 ‘What's it got to do with you anyway?’ a crabbed little Punchinello voice shouts as soon as I go inside.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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