bamboccione
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From bamboccio (“chubby child, baby face”) + -one (augmentative suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bamboccione m (plural bamboccioni, feminine bambocciona)
- Augmentative of bamboccio
- (informal, derogatory) a bachelor who lives with his parents
- 2016 December 12, Massimiliano Peggio, “Basta soldi del papà al figlio bamboccione”, in La Stampa[1]:
- Quant’è dura la legge per i bamboccioni di genitori divorziati. A 24 anni, dopo aver abbandonato la scuola superiore in quarta liceo per dedicarsi a tempo pieno al bodybuilding, alle moto, ai bolidi Bmw e a qualche lavoretto saltuario, pretendeva di mantenere l’assegno di mantenimento di papà, ex manager d’azienda.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- baby face
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- bamboccione in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- bamboccione in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
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- Italian terms suffixed with -one (augmentative)
- Italian 4-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Italian/one
- Rhymes:Italian/one/4 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- Italian augmentative nouns
- Italian informal terms
- Italian derogatory terms
- Italian terms with quotations
- it:Face
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