Punchinello
noun
[ ˌpʌn(t)ʃɪˈnɛləʊ ]
• another name for punch4 (sense 1 of the noun).
Origin:
mid 17th century: alteration of Neapolitan dialect Polecenella, perhaps a diminutive of pollecena ‘young turkey cock with a hooked beak’, from pulcino ‘chicken’, from Latin pullus .
