Italian

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Etymology

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From beccare (to peck) +‎ -ucchiare.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /bek.kukˈkja.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: bec‧cuc‧chià‧re

Verb

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  This Italian verb needs to be reviewed and cleaned up.
The definition(s) may be wrong or misleading, and important senses may be missing. The specified auxiliary may also be wrong. The remainder of the conjugation is probably correct for -are verbs but may be wrong in some particulars for -ire verbs (especially the present participle).

beccucchiàre (first-person singular present beccùcchio, first-person singular past historic beccucchiài, past participle beccucchiàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to peck (e.g. food) around in small quantities

Conjugation

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Further reading

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