half woman. Derogatory term for gays. + Mignone bottom homosexual boy. From the French word “mignon”, which means cute, charming, elegant. + Mignotta whore, prostitute. Also used for homosexual men. + Mituscio Genoese expression for bottom homosexual. ...
Meglio un asino vivo che un dottore morto(literally: a donkey alive is better than a dead doctor). This idiom means that it’s better to be a bit ignorant but healthy than getting sick because of studying too much Andare a letto con le galline(literally: to go to bed with the chicke...
The Spanish wordburro[ˈburo] means stupid, pig-headed, donkey, racehorse, also-ran, stubborn fool, sawhorse or swing [source]. The same word with similar meanings is also found in Catalan, Galician and Portuguese [source]. It comes fromborrico(donkey, a stubborn, lazy, or stupid person...
I have made several errors in my attempts to speak italian in Italy but one of my more glaring boo-boos was the time that I was trying to explain to my Italian relatives that in America we put preservatives in wine while in Italy they do not. I did not know the word for preservativ...
and the name for its young, when applicable.As you probably already know, Italian is a phonetic language, which means we pronounce all letters just as they are written. This means that, once you know a few simple rules,you’ll have no problem pronouncing any word you read. Pretty cool,...
The book has pages for the student to cut out, read, and color, with animal names to write. The pages are: cow, pig, horse, sheep, chicken, goat, turkey, donkey, and duck. Il CircoCircus Words in ItalianA short, printable book about the circus in Italian - for early readers. The ...
t reflect well on me. I rarely pushed back because it never occurred to me that people even read what he wrote or cared about me. At best, I imagined they were reading for snippets of history and odd mishaps like arguing with a donkey on a muddy track. I didn’t realize they came ...
When the donkey brays, it goes ee-aw. Quando l’asino raglia, fa ih-oh, ih-oh. When the donkey brays, it goes ee-aw. Quando la rana gracida, fa cra-cra. When the frog croaks, it says ribbit, ribbit. Quando l’uccello fa un piccolo rumore, fa cip cip. ...
The olives get pressed to produce a pulpy, usually violet-coloured substance, with no addition of heat or water. Though it is now done by mechanical means, it was traditionally done by grinding one stone around and around inside another larger stone, often pulled by a donkey or a horse, ...
Un asino – a donkey I think this is all too much for 7:30 in the morning. I have system overload and need more coffee but this is the life of an expat in Italy. There are always questions, there will always be questions and I will always admit my mistakes and laugh at myself....