azzeccare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to hit, strike (a target, etc.)
  2. (transitive) to guess, to hazard
  3. (slang, transitive) to question someone's intelligence
  4. (rare, transitive) to give through deceit; to deceive

Hyphenated as
az‧zec‧cà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ad.d͡zekˈka.re/
Etymology

From Middle High German zecken. Compare dialectal German zecken (“to tease”) and Luxembourgish zecken.

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