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puzzare
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Italian
Etymology
From puzzo (“smell, stink”) + -are (1st conjugation verbal suffix).
Pronunciation
Verb
puzzàre (first-person singular present pùzzo, first-person singular past historic puzzài, past participle puzzàto, auxiliary avére)
- (intransitive) to smell (bad) or stink [auxiliary avere]
- La stanza puzza di fumo ― The room smells like cigarettes (literally, “The room smells like smoke”)
- (intransitive, figurative) to cause worry or unease [auxiliary avere]
- (intransitive, figurative) to be annoying or irritating [auxiliary avere]
- (intransitive, figurative) to give an impression, to seem [with di ‘of’] [auxiliary avere]
- 1840, Alessandro Manzoni, “Capitolo XI [Chapter 11]”, in I promessi sposi, Tip. Guglielmini e Redaelli, 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.
- (intransitive, figurative) to despise, to disdain [auxiliary avere]
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Further reading
- puzzare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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