nasone

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Italian

un nasone (sense 3)

Etymology

From naso, suffixed with -one (augmentative suffix) for the first sense and -one (agent noun forming suffix) in the other senses.

Noun

nasone m (plural nasoni, feminine (only sense 2) nasona)

  1. (informal) Augmentative of naso; a big nose
    il nasone della Befana ― Befana's big nose
  2. (informal) a person with a large nose
    Guarda che nasone quello là!
    Look at that man with a big nose!
  4. (originally Rome) a cast iron cylindric water fountain with a hooked faucet found mainly in Rome

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