puzzare

Italian

Etymology

puzzo (smell, stink) + -are (1st conjugation verbal suffix)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /putˈt͡sa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: puz‧zà‧re

Verb

puzzare

  1. (intransitive) To smell (bad) or stink.
    La stanza puzza di fumoThe room smells like cigarettes (literally, “The room smells like smoke”)
  2. (intransitive, figuratively):
    1. To cause worry or unease.
    2. To be annoying or irritating.
    3. To give an impression, to seem; constructed as puzzare di: to give an impression of, to seem like
      • 1840, Alessandro Manzoni, I promessi sposi, Tip. Guglielmini e Redaelli, Capitolo XI, page 222:
        Gervaso, a cui non pareva vero d’essere una volta più informato degli altri, a cui non pareva piccola gloria l’avere avuta una gran paura, a cui, per aver tenuto di mano a una cosa che puzzava di criminale, pareva d’esser diventato un uomo come gli altri, crepava di voglia di vantarsene.
        Jervase, who could scarcely believe that for once he knew a little more than others, who regarded having had a great fear not as a small glory, and who, for having had a hand in what seemed like a criminal affair, felt himself a man like the others, was dying to boast about it.
    4. To despise or disdain.

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References

  • puzzare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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