pizza

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(feminine) pizza
(feminine) reel
(Italy, Southern, colloquial, feminine, idiomatic) bore (something very monotonous and boring)
(feminine, idiomatic, slang) slap, smack (on the face)

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pìz‧za

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpit.t͡sa/

1590, as Neapolitan pizza (Velardiniello, La storia de cient'anne arreto). Likely related to Byzantine Greek πίτα (píta, “cake, pie”) (12th century); the origin of the Greek word is itself uncertain. Also possibly from Lombardic bizza (also pizza or bizzo (pizzo), which would rather suggest a north-to-south spread of the word. See the English and Greek entries for more detail.