cuticagna

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Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From cotica (pork rind).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ku.tiˈkaɲ.ɲa/
  • Rhymes: -aɲɲa
  • Hyphenation: cu‧ti‧cà‧gna

Noun[edit]

cuticagna f (plural cuticagne)

  1. (archaic) nape, scruff (of the neck)
    • 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XXXII, p. 478, vv. 97-98:
      Allor lo presi per la cuticagna ¶ e dissi: «El converrà che tu ti nomi, ¶ o che capel qui sù non ti rimagna».
      Then by the scalp behind I seized upon him and said: «It must needs be thou name thyself, or not a hair remain upon thee here».
    1. (by extension) head

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