1) Absurd character 2) American political magazine 3) American weekly magazine
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Punchinello was a short-lived American satirical magazine. Inspired by the English publication Punch, it ran in weekly editions from 2 April 1870 to 24 December 1870. ==History== The magazine was founded by former editors of Vanity Fair, which went out of business in 1863. They found four investors willing to provide $5000 each--though they did no...
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• (n.) A punch; a buffoon; originally, in a puppet show, a character represented as fat, short, and humpbacked.
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Traditional rogue of the Italian
commedia dell'arte and ancestor of
Punch. He has a large nose and a humpe...
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Pun`chi·nel'lo noun [ Italian
pulcinella , probably originally a word of endearment, dim. of
pulcina ,
pulcino , a chicken, from Latin
pullicenus ,
pullus . See
Pullet .] A punch; a buffoon; originally, in a puppet show, a character represented as fat, short,...
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Punchinello is an older form of the name 'Punch' in the Punch and Judy show. Punchinello as a character appears in the Italian 'Comedia dell'Arte' about the beginning of the 17th century, and originated in the neighbourhood of Naples. Traditionally represented with a black mask and a hooked nose, Punchinello is a boastful clown, the hero of ridicul...
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a grotesque or absurd chief character in a puppet show of Italian origin: the prototype of Punch. · any similarly grotesque or absurd person or thing.
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