ruffiano
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]ruffiano (plural ruffianos)
- (obsolete) A ruffian.
- 1836, Foster's Cabinet Miscellany, page 227:
- […] the noisy boys in the streets, who constitute the ruffianos.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From roffia (“dirt”), from Old High German hruf (“eschar, crust”). Cognate with Icelandic hrufla (“to scratch”), English ruffle. Alternatively from Vulgar Latin *rufianus, from rūfus (“red”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ruffiano m (plural ruffiani, feminine ruffiana)
- pander, procurer, pimp
- Synonyms: magnaccia, protettore, lenone, pappone
- bootlicker
- sycophant
- flunky
- hanger-on
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