stizzaccia
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]stizzaccia f (plural stizzacce)
- Pejorative of stizza: a bitter anger or chafe
- 1875, Anna Vertua Gentile, Letizia e Sandro[1], Milan: Natale Battezzati, page 83:
- Insomma, il coltello l'aveva lei per il manico, il modo di maneggiarlo glielo insegnavano a meraviglia il segreto rancore e quella stizzaccia che le ribolliva in seno.
- In short, she was holding the knife by the handle, and she was wonderfully being taught how to use it by the secret resentment, and that bitter anger seething in her chest.