zucchino

See also: zucchina and Zucchino

English

Etymology

From Italian zucchino, singular of zucchini.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /zuˈkinoʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /zuˈkiːnəʊ/
• Hyphenation: zuc‧chi‧no

Noun

zucchino (plural zucchini)

1. Alternative form of zucchini
   • 1947, The New Yorker, volume 23, page 21:

     After a prolonged session with a cookbook, she selected two or three recipes she considered promising, went to her grocer’s, and read off her list of ingredients: a quarter pound of white seedless grapes, three oranges, two tart apples, three cloves, the breast of a chicken, a can of pigs’ feet, a spring onion, a zucchino, three leeks, and a half pint of dried black-eyed peas. The grocer paled as he listened. “Lady,” he said, “what are you making—a painting?”

   • 1962, Monthly Bulletin of the Ministry of Health and Public Health Laboratory Service, page 188:

     Two members of another family became ill after eating a zucchino—a marrow-like plant grown in their garden; a bitter ether-soluble substance was extracted from a sample of the vegetable (Frizelle 1961).

   • 1986, Keats-Shelley Review, page 87:

     A zucchino is a small marrow, but there can be no connection with Shelley’s ‘The Zucca’, which was not drafted until 1821.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:zucchino.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/d͡zukˈki.no/, (traditional) ^*/t͡sukˈki.no/
• Rhymes: -ino
• Hyphenation: zuc‧chì‧no

Noun

zucchino m (plural zucchini)

1. Alternative form of zucchina
2. (Switzerland, colloquial, usually in the plural) German-speaking Swiss