pettinare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to comb, dress (hair, fur, etc.)
  2. (broadly, transitive) to comb the hair or fur of
  3. (broadly, transitive) to comb; to card; to tease; to hackle (fabric)
  4. (humorous, transitive) to give a beating; to knock some sense into
  5. (transitive) to criticize harshly; to reprimand; to tell off
  6. (broadly, euphemistic, figuratively, transitive) to fix up or polish a story, typically by distorting a fact or guiding a misleading narrative
  7. (archaic, poetic, transitive) to eat voraciously

Frequency

49k
Hyphenated as
pet‧ti‧nà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pet.tiˈna.re/
Etymology

From Latin pectināre.

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