collotorto
Italian
editAlternative forms
edit- collo torto (less common)
Etymology
editFrom collo (“neck”) + torto (“bent, twisted, crooked”), in sense 1 associating religious people to excessively bowing and looking downwards. Compare Catalan colltort.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcollotorto m (plural collitorti)
- (derogatory) a religious hypocrite, a bigot
- Synonyms: bacchettone m, bacchettona f, baciapile m or f, bigotto m, bigotta f
- a wryneck (bird of genus Jynx)
- Synonyms: torcicollo m, verticollo m
References
edit- ^ collotorto in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication