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!",
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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?».",
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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.",
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"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„.",
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"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.",
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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.",
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"4": "",
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}
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"Italian vulgarities"
],
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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!",
"type": "quote"
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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?».",
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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.",
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}
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"dick"
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[
"cock",
"cock"
],
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"prick",
"prick"
]
],
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"(vulgar) dick, cock, prick"
],
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{
"word": "cazzo#Italian"
}
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"masculine",
"vulgar"
]
},
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"Italian terms with usage examples"
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"english": "It's not worth shit, it's worth sod all.",
"text": "Non vale un cazzo.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"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„.",
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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.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"shit"
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"bugger all"
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"word": "accidenti"
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{
"word": "cavolo"
}
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"english": "to mind one's own fucking business",
"text": "farsi i cazzi proprî",
"type": "example"
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{
"english": "by oneself, on one's own (vulgar)",
"text": "per i cazzi proprî",
"type": "example"
},
{
"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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"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.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"problem",
"problem"
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[
"business",
"business"
],
[
"matter",
"matter"
]
],
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],
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],
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"word": "affari"
},
{
"word": "cacchi"
},
{
"word": "cavoli"
}
],
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"masculine",
"vulgar"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/ˈkat.t͡so/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-attso"
}
],
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"tags": [
"vulgar"
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"word": "cazzo"
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"tags": [
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],
"word": "calippo"
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{
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"word": "fava"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:cazzo",
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "pisello"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:cazzo",
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"childish"
],
"word": "pistolino"
},
{
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"vulgar"
],
"word": "uccello"
},
{
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"word": "pipi"
},
{
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"tags": [
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],
"word": "minchia"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cazzo",
"word": "batacchio"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cazzo",
"tags": [
"vulgar"
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"word": "bigolo"
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"vulgar"
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"word": "bischero"
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{
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"word": "belìn"
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{
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:cazzo",
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"vulgar"
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"word": "pirla"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cazzo",
"tags": [
"Latium"
],
"word": "meggia"
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{
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"tags": [
"vulgar"
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"word": "pesce"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:cazzo",
"word": "volatile"
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{
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"tags": [
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"word": "nerchia"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:cazzo",
"word": "alabarda"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cazzo",
"word": "talpa"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cazzo",
"word": "lancia"
},
{
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"tags": [
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],
"word": "pinca"
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{
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"word": "pipo"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:cazzo",
"word": "mazzolo"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cazzo",
"word": "bongo"
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{
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"tags": [
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"word": "salsiccia"
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{
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"word": "spingarda"
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"word": "torrone"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:cazzo",
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"english": "a person who is anal about something, overtly pedant",
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"word": "cazzata"
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{
"english": "shit and whatnot; dicks and decks",
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{
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{
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"word": "cazzone"
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{
"word": "cazzotto"
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{
"english": "ballsy",
"word": "cazzuto"
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{
"word": "del cazzo"
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{
"english": "no shit",
"word": "grazie al cazzo"
},
{
"english": "to get pissed",
"word": "incazzarsi"
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{
"word": "stare sul cazzo"
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{
"english": "given fucks",
"word": "sticazzi"
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{
"english": "these nuts",
"word": "stocazzo"
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{
"word": "testa di cazzo"
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{
"word": "cavolo"
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{
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{
"word": "merda"
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{
"english": "What the fuck do you want?",
"text": "Che cazzo vuoi?",
"type": "example"
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{
"english": "The fuck are you looking at?",
"text": "Cazzo guardi?",
"type": "example"
}
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],
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[
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[
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"che#Italian"
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[
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]
]
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{
"glosses": [
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"Italian terms with usage examples"
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{
"english": "Good morning my ass!",
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"type": "example"
}
],
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"my ass!"
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Download raw JSONL data for cazzo meaning in Italian (13.8kB)
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