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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bokˈki.no/
- Rhymes: -ino
- Hyphenation: boc‧chì‧no
Etymology 1
From bocca (“mouth”) + -ino (“-y”, diminutive suffix).
Noun
bocchino m (plural bocchini)
- (dated) a small and pleasantly shaped mouth
- Synonym: boccuccia
- (slang, strongly vulgar) blowjob
- Synonyms: pompa, pompino
Etymology 2
From bocca (“mouth”) + -ino (“-ine”).
Noun
bocchino m (plural bocchini)
- the mouthpiece of a pipe
- Synonyms: cannello, cannuccia, imboccatura
- cigarette holder
- Synonyms: cannello, cannuccia
- the mouthpiece of a wind instrument
- Synonyms: bocchetta, imboccatura
- a metal strip that fastens the barrel of a rifle together with the foremost-end of the stock, where a bayonet can be fixed