talpone
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]talpone m (plural talponi)
- Augmentative of talpa; a large mole
- (colloquial, figurative) a lazy, sedentary and disinterested person; couch potato
- (Tuscan) sewer rat
- Synonyms: topo di fogna, surmolotto, ratto delle chiaviche
- (weaponry) tool used to adjust the parallelism between the axis of the barrel and the line of sight
Further reading
[edit]- talpone on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
- talpone in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- talpone in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication