pappagallo

Meaning

Noun

1. (masculine) parrot
2. (masculine, slang) wolf (man who makes amorous advances to many women)
3. (colloquial, masculine) parrot (a person who repeats others' words and phrases without understanding them)
4. (masculine) a bottlelike bedpan for urination only; a bed urinal

Verb

first-person singular present indicative of pappagallare

Concepts

parrot

🦜

wolf

🐺

macaw

popinjay

skirt chaser

urinal

woman chaser

multigrip pliers

water pump pliers

multi slip-joint gripping pliers

catcaller

bedpan

bed bottle

masher

parakeet

Synonyms

calabrone

ara

pinza a pappagallo

pappagallo parlante

giratubi

macao

pomicione

😘

Translations

Papagei

🦜

perroquet

🦜

loro

🦜

papagaio

🦜

papagayo

🦜

papegaai

🦜

papağan

🦜

lloro

🦜

παπαγάλος

psittacus

🦜

papagai

🦜

cotorra

papagai

papaxan

Hyphenated as

pap‧pa‧gàl‧lo

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pap.paˈɡal.lo/

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek παπαγᾶς (papagâs), from Arabic بَبَغَاء (babaḡāʔ), of onomatopoeic origin. Influenced by gallo (“rooster”). Cognate with German Papagei, Sicilian pappagaḍḍu-pappajaḍḍu, Spanish papagayo, and English popinjay.