talpone

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Italian

Etymology

From talpa +‎ -one.

Noun

talpone m (plural talponi)

  1. Augmentative of talpa; a large mole
    1. (colloquial, figurative) a lazy, sedentary and disinterested person; couch potato
    2. (Tuscan) sewer rat
      Synonyms: topo di fogna, surmolotto, ratto delle chiaviche
  2. (weaponry) tool used to adjust the parallelism between the axis of the barrel and the line of sight

Further reading

  • talpone on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
  • talpone in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • talpone in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

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