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Italian
Etymology
From Venetan petegolar, from petegolo (“gossip”, noun), from peto (“fart”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pet.te.ɡoˈla.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: pet‧te‧go‧là‧re
Verb
pettegolàre (first-person singular present pettégolo, first-person singular past historic pettegolài, past participle pettegolàto, auxiliary avére)
- (intransitive) to gossip
- (intransitive, by extension) to malign, to say nasty things
Conjugation
References
- ^ pettegolare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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