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   Punchinello

   /ˌpʌn(t)ʃɪˈnɛləʊ/

   noun

   • 1. another name for Punch
   • ▪ a short, stout, comical-looking person.

   Word Origin mid 17th century: alteration of Neapolitan dialect Polecenella, perhaps a diminutive of pollecena ‘young turkey cock with a hooked beak’, from pulcino ‘chicken’, from Latin pullus.

   Scrabble Points: 18

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