Masculine

cuscinetto

Meaning

  1. (masculine) pad
  2. (masculine) pincushion
  3. (masculine) bearing (ball or roller)
  4. (colloquial, masculine) toe bean (digital pad of a cat or dog's paw)

Frequency

39k
Hyphenated as
cu‧sci‧nét‧to
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kuʃ.ʃiˈnet.to/
Etymology

From cuscino + -etto (diminutive suffix). Cf. French coussinet.

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