collotorto
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Italian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- collo torto (less common)
Etymology[edit]
From collo (“neck”) + torto (“bent, twisted, crooked”), in sense 1 associating religious people to excessively bowing and looking downwards. Compare Catalan colltort.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
collotorto m (plural collitorti)
- (derogatory) a religious hypocrite, a bigot
- Synonyms: bacchettone m, bacchettona f, baciapile m or f, bigotto m, bigotta f
- a wryneck (bird of genus Jynx)
- Synonyms: torcicollo m, verticollo m
References[edit]
- ^ collotorto in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication