stiletto

See also richiamò

English

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Adjective

stiletto

1. Sharp and narrow like a stiletto.

   Her stiletto heels would cause damage if she ever stepped on someone's foot with them.

Noun

stiletto (plural stilettos or stilettoes or stiletti)

1. A short sharp knife or dagger-like weapon intended for stabbing.
   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, The Tremarn Case^[1]:

     “There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”

2. A rapier.
3. An awl.
4. A woman's shoe with a tall, slender heel (stiletto heel).

Translations

short sharp stabbing weapon

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 短劍 (cmn), 短剑 (cmn) (duǎnjiàn)

• Finnish: stiletti (fi)
• French: stylet (fr) m

• German: Stilett (de) n
• Japanese: 短剣 (ja) (たんけん, tanken), 小剣 (ja) (しょうけん, shōken), スティレット (ja) (sutiretto)
• Polish: sztylet (pl) m
• Portuguese: estilete (pt) m
• Russian: стилет (ru) (stilét) m, кортик (ru) (kórtik) m (dirk), кинжал (ru) (kinžál) m (dagger)

rapier — see rapier

awl — see awl

woman's shoe with a tall, slender heel

• Finnish: piikkikorkokenkä (fi)
• French: talon aiguille (fr) m (by ellipsis)
• German: Pfennigabsatz (de) m, Bleistiftabsatz (de) m, Stöckelabsatz (de) m

• Macedonian: штикла (mk) (štíkla) f
• Polish: szpilka (pl) f
• Russian: шпилька (ru) (špílʹka) f

Verb

stiletto (third-person singular simple present stilettos, present participle stilettoing, simple past and past participle stilettoed)

1. To attack or kill with a stiletto (dagger).

Derived terms

• stiletto heel

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Italian

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Noun

stiletto m (plural stiletti)

1. stiletto, dagger

Derived terms

• stilettata

Verb

stiletto

1. first-person singular present indicative of stilettare