stiracchiare
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]stiracchiàre (first-person singular present stiràcchio, first-person singular past historic stiracchiài, past participle stiracchiàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive, rare) to iron haphazardly and carelessly
- (transitive) to stretch
- (transitive) to force, to distort, to twist
- (transitive, figurative) to quibble about (a clause, point, etc.)
- (transitive or intransitive) to economize, to save [auxiliary avere]
- (transitive or intransitive, colloquial) to haggle [auxiliary avere]
- (intransitive, figurative) to quibble [auxiliary avere]
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of stiracchiàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)