Thesaurus:finocchio
Italian
editNoun
editSense: homosexual man
editSynonyms
edit- bucaiolo (Florentine slang)
- bulicio (Genoan slang)
- busone (Bologna)
- checca (“effeminate gay man”)
- culattari (Ferrara)
- culattone (Veneto)
- culo (Lombard slang)
- femminiello (“pre-op transgendered, especially a trans woman”) (Naples)
- feno (Venetian slang)
- finocchio (literally “fennel”)
- frociaggine
- frocio (originally Rome)
- frocione (Milanese slang)
- garruso (Sicily, especially Agrigento)
- invertito (literally “inverted”)
- nerchioso (Roman slang)
- occhio fino (metathesis of finocchio, literally “subtle eye”)
- pedale (“top in a gay male couple”) (Ferrara)
- ricchione／recchione
- travestito (“cross-dresser”)
- viado (“pre-op transgered”) (from Brazilian Portuguese)