chitarrone
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian chitarrone.
Noun
[edit]chitarrone (plural chitarrones)
- Synonym of theorbo
Derived terms
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From chitarra (“guitar”) + -one (augmentative suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]chitarrone m (plural chitarroni)
- Augmentative of chitarra: a large guitar
- (derogatory) an untuned guitar
- (music) Synonym of tiorba (“theorbo”)
- (figurative, derogatory) poetaster (unskilled poet)
- (figurative, derogatory) a fat woman
- Hypernym: donna
Further reading
[edit]- chitarrone in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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- Rhymes:Italian/one
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