See cazzo in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"english": "I want this dick more than a treasure! This is the possession that can make me happy! Now, this is a possession worthy of an empress! This gem is worth more than a wellful of gold!",
"ref": "1526, Pietro Aretino, “Sonetto IV [Sonnet 4]” (chapter 4), in Sonetti lussuriosi [Lustful sonnets]^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Sonetti_lussuriosi_(edizione_1792)), lines 1–4; republished in Dubbî amorosi, altri dubbî e sonetti lussuriosi di Pietro Aretino, dedicati al clero, Rome: Stamperia Vaticana, 1792, page 42:",
"text": "Questo cazzo vogl’io più ch’un tesoro!\nQuesto è quel ben, che mi può far felice!\nOr questo si che è ben da Imperatrice!\nQuesta gemma val più d’un pozzo d’oro!",
"translation": "I want this dick more than a treasure! This is the possession that can make me happy! Now, this is a possession worthy of an empress! This gem is worth more than a wellful of gold!",
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"english": "He said that thing is called a cock, or a dick; and the other two [are called] balls. I asked him: \"What is this little toy? And what are these two pendants good for?\"",
"ref": "early-mid- to mid-19ᵗʰ century, Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli, Le confidenze de le regazze, lines 5–8; republished as “Le confidenze de le regazze II”, in Marcello Teodonio, editor, Tutti i sonetti romaneschi di G. G. Belli, Rome, 1998:",
"text": "Quer coso disce che sse chiama uscello,\noppuro cazzo, e ll’antri dua cojjoni.\nIo je fesce: «E cch’edè sto ggiucarello?\nE sti du’ pennolini a cche ssò bboni?».",
"translation": "He said that thing is called a cock, or a dick; and the other two [are called] balls. I asked him: \"What is this little toy? And what are these two pendants good for?\"",
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"english": "The lord of Corinth, with his noble cock, such that never a harder or more beautiful one was ever seen. The lord of Corinth, with his swift penis, terror and ruin for the fragile hymen; the lord of Corinth, with his hairy dick, ever hungry for ruddy ass.",
"ref": "1928, Hertz De Benedetti, “Atto primo [First act]”, in Ifigonia in Culide:",
"text": "Il Sir di Corinto, dal nobile augello\nqual mai non fu visto più duro e più bello.\nIl sir di Corinto dall’agile pene\nterrore e ruina del fragile imene;\nil sir di Corinto dal cazzo peloso\ndel cul rubicondo ognora goloso.",
"translation": "The lord of Corinth, with his noble cock, such that never a harder or more beautiful one was ever seen. The lord of Corinth, with his swift penis, terror and ruin for the fragile hymen; the lord of Corinth, with his hairy dick, ever hungry for ruddy ass.",
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"word": "calippo"
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"word": "pisello"
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"word": "pirla"
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"word": "mazzolo"
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"word": "bongo"
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"word": "salsiccia"
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"word": "spingarda"
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"word": "torrone"
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"word": "trapano"
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"word": "verga"
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"english": "It's not worth shit, it's worth sod all.",
"text": "Non vale un cazzo.",
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"english": "Yesterday, my monsignor, having turned purple up to his face, jumped up and yelled: \"Shut up, by God! Gentlemen, what is all this loudness? I'll have you know that I've been passing sentences while hearing fuck all for two hours now!\"",
"ref": "c. 1800, G. G. Belli, “Er giudisce”, in Sonetti Romaneschi:",
"text": "Jeri, a la fine, er Monziggnore mio,\nFattose inzino in faccia pavonazzo,\nSartò in piede e strillò: “Zzitti, per dio!\nCh’edè, ssignori miei, sto schiaramazzo?\nSe tratta cqua ch’è ggià un par d’ora ch’io\nDo le sentenze senza intenne un cazzo„.",
"translation": "Yesterday, my monsignor, having turned purple up to his face, jumped up and yelled: \"Shut up, by God! Gentlemen, what is all this loudness? I'll have you know that I've been passing sentences while hearing fuck all for two hours now!\"",
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"english": "I'm an artist, I don't have to explain jackshit.",
"ref": "2013, Paolo Sorrentino, 00:21:49 from the start, in La grande bellezza, spoken by Talia Concept (Anita Kravos):",
"text": "Sono un'artista, non devo spiegare un cazzo.",
"translation": "I'm an artist, I don't have to explain jackshit.",
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"english": "to mind one's own fucking business",
"text": "farsi i cazzi propri",
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"english": "- If you're free, we'll see each other in two days.\n- Is your fever over?\nI didn't like the irony in his voice one bit.\n- I had my problems, just like everybody else does.",
"ref": "2019, Sal Ferranti, Amico, ti aspetto (energia.0; 5), Palermo: Urban Apnea Edizioni, page 33:",
"text": "- Se sei libero, tra due giorni ci vediamo.\n- Passata la febbre?\nL'ironia nella sua voce non mi piacque per niente.\n- Avevo i cazzi miei, come ce li hanno tutti.",
"translation": "- If you're free, we'll see each other in two days.\n- Is your fever over?\nI didn't like the irony in his voice one bit.\n- I had my problems, just like everybody else does.",
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"english": "- Whisky with beer? What on earth are you doing?\n- I'm minding my own fucking business, together with a barman who apparently never minds his own.",
"ref": "2008, Simone Tempia, Una brutta storia; collected in Vorrei vedere te - Racconti, Pavia: Edizioni O.M.P., 2008, →ISBN, page 35:",
"text": "— Il whisky nella birra? Ma che fai?\n— Mi faccio i cazzi miei con un barista che, a quanto pare, i suoi non se li fa mai.",
"translation": "- Whisky with beer? What on earth are you doing?\n- I'm minding my own fucking business, together with a barman who apparently never minds his own.",
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"english": "a person who is anal about something, overtly pedant",
"translation": "a person who is anal about something, overtly pedant",
"word": "cacacazzo"
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"english": "person who says a lot of insensate words",
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"word": "cazzaro"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"english": "bullshit",
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"english": "to get pissed",
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"word": "incazzarsi"
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"english": "given fucks",
"translation": "given fucks",
"word": "sticazzi"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"english": "these nuts",
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"word": "stocazzo"
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"english": "Get aboard, for fuck's sake!",
"text": "Vada a bordo, cazzo!",
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"english": "What the fuck do you want?",
"text": "Che cazzo vuoi?",
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"english": "The fuck are you looking at?",
"text": "Cazzo guardi?",
"translation": "The fuck are you looking at?",
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"english": "Good morning my ass!",
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"ref": "1526, Pietro Aretino, “Sonetto IV [Sonnet 4]” (chapter 4), in Sonetti lussuriosi [Lustful sonnets]^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Sonetti_lussuriosi_(edizione_1792)), lines 1–4; republished in Dubbî amorosi, altri dubbî e sonetti lussuriosi di Pietro Aretino, dedicati al clero, Rome: Stamperia Vaticana, 1792, page 42:",
"text": "Questo cazzo vogl’io più ch’un tesoro!\nQuesto è quel ben, che mi può far felice!\nOr questo si che è ben da Imperatrice!\nQuesta gemma val più d’un pozzo d’oro!",
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"ref": "early-mid- to mid-19ᵗʰ century, Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli, Le confidenze de le regazze, lines 5–8; republished as “Le confidenze de le regazze II”, in Marcello Teodonio, editor, Tutti i sonetti romaneschi di G. G. Belli, Rome, 1998:",
"text": "Quer coso disce che sse chiama uscello,\noppuro cazzo, e ll’antri dua cojjoni.\nIo je fesce: «E cch’edè sto ggiucarello?\nE sti du’ pennolini a cche ssò bboni?».",
"translation": "He said that thing is called a cock, or a dick; and the other two [are called] balls. I asked him: \"What is this little toy? And what are these two pendants good for?\"",
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"ref": "1928, Hertz De Benedetti, “Atto primo [First act]”, in Ifigonia in Culide:",
"text": "Il Sir di Corinto, dal nobile augello\nqual mai non fu visto più duro e più bello.\nIl sir di Corinto dall’agile pene\nterrore e ruina del fragile imene;\nil sir di Corinto dal cazzo peloso\ndel cul rubicondo ognora goloso.",
"translation": "The lord of Corinth, with his noble cock, such that never a harder or more beautiful one was ever seen. The lord of Corinth, with his swift penis, terror and ruin for the fragile hymen; the lord of Corinth, with his hairy dick, ever hungry for ruddy ass.",
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"english": "Yesterday, my monsignor, having turned purple up to his face, jumped up and yelled: \"Shut up, by God! Gentlemen, what is all this loudness? I'll have you know that I've been passing sentences while hearing fuck all for two hours now!\"",
"ref": "c. 1800, G. G. Belli, “Er giudisce”, in Sonetti Romaneschi:",
"text": "Jeri, a la fine, er Monziggnore mio,\nFattose inzino in faccia pavonazzo,\nSartò in piede e strillò: “Zzitti, per dio!\nCh’edè, ssignori miei, sto schiaramazzo?\nSe tratta cqua ch’è ggià un par d’ora ch’io\nDo le sentenze senza intenne un cazzo„.",
"translation": "Yesterday, my monsignor, having turned purple up to his face, jumped up and yelled: \"Shut up, by God! Gentlemen, what is all this loudness? I'll have you know that I've been passing sentences while hearing fuck all for two hours now!\"",
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"english": "- If you're free, we'll see each other in two days.\n- Is your fever over?\nI didn't like the irony in his voice one bit.\n- I had my problems, just like everybody else does.",
"ref": "2019, Sal Ferranti, Amico, ti aspetto (energia.0; 5), Palermo: Urban Apnea Edizioni, page 33:",
"text": "- Se sei libero, tra due giorni ci vediamo.\n- Passata la febbre?\nL'ironia nella sua voce non mi piacque per niente.\n- Avevo i cazzi miei, come ce li hanno tutti.",
"translation": "- If you're free, we'll see each other in two days.\n- Is your fever over?\nI didn't like the irony in his voice one bit.\n- I had my problems, just like everybody else does.",
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"english": "- Whisky with beer? What on earth are you doing?\n- I'm minding my own fucking business, together with a barman who apparently never minds his own.",
"ref": "2008, Simone Tempia, Una brutta storia; collected in Vorrei vedere te - Racconti, Pavia: Edizioni O.M.P., 2008, →ISBN, page 35:",
"text": "— Il whisky nella birra? Ma che fai?\n— Mi faccio i cazzi miei con un barista che, a quanto pare, i suoi non se li fa mai.",
"translation": "- Whisky with beer? What on earth are you doing?\n- I'm minding my own fucking business, together with a barman who apparently never minds his own.",
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5,
13
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],
"english": "What the fuck do you want?",
"text": "Che cazzo vuoi?",
"translation": "What the fuck do you want?",
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},
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],
"english": "The fuck are you looking at?",
"text": "Cazzo guardi?",
"translation": "The fuck are you looking at?",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"used as an intensifier, often replacing cosa or che, similar to \"what the fuck\"."
],
"links": [
[
"intensifier",
"intensifier#English"
],
[
"cosa",
"cosa#Italian"
],
[
"che",
"che#Italian"
],
[
"what the fuck",
"what the fuck#English"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"good grief"
],
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[
"good grief",
"good grief"
]
]
},
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19
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],
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13,
19
]
],
"english": "Good morning my ass!",
"text": "Buongiorno un cazzo!",
"translation": "Good morning my ass!",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"my ass!"
],
"links": [
[
"my ass",
"my ass"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkat.t͡so/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-attso"
}
],
"word": "cazzo"
}
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"Italian 2-syllable words",
"Italian entries with incorrect language header",
"Italian intensifiers",
"Italian non-lemma forms",
"Italian swear words",
"Italian terms with IPA pronunciation",
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"Italian verb forms",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Italian/attso",
"Rhymes:Italian/attso/2 syllables",
"it:Genitalia"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
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"args": {},
"expansion": "See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.",
"name": "nonlemma"
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],
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},
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}
],
"hyphenation": [
"càz‧zo"
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"càz‧zo"
]
}
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "cazzare"
}
],
"glosses": [
"first-person singular present indicative of cazzare"
],
"links": [
[
"cazzare",
"cazzare#Italian"
]
],
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]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈkat.t͡so/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-attso"
}
],
"word": "cazzo"
}
Download raw JSONL data for cazzo meaning in Italian (17.5kB)
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
"msg": "unrecognized head form: augmentative-derogatory cazzóne",
"path": [
"cazzo"
],
"section": "Italian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "cazzo",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: un cazzo",
"path": [
"cazzo"
],
"section": "Italian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "cazzo",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: un cazzo",
"path": [
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"section": "Italian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "cazzo",
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