pettinare
Meaning
- (transitive) to comb, dress (hair, fur, etc.)
- (broadly, transitive) to comb the hair or fur of
- (broadly, transitive) to comb; to card; to tease; to hackle (fabric)
- (humorous, transitive) to give a beating; to knock some sense into
- (transitive) to criticize harshly; to reprimand; to tell off
- (broadly, euphemistic, figuratively, transitive) to fix up or polish a story, typically by distorting a fact or guiding a misleading narrative
- (archaic, poetic, transitive) to eat voraciously
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Hyphenated as
pet‧ti‧nà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pet.tiˈna.re/
Etymology
From Latin pectināre.
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