paparazza
See also: Paparazza
English edit
Etymology edit
From Italian paparazza, changed from paparazzo to reflect feminine gender (both actual and grammatical), as is morphologically standard in Italian.
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Noun edit
paparazza (plural not attested)
- A female paparazzo.
- 1981, Francine du Plessix Gray, World Without End: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 149{1} & 150{2}:
- {1} This Sophie he often talks to her about, who helps support her old sick parents so nobly and has just won a big prize for her writing, how did she go about finding herself as a paparazza?
{2} […] she might eventually interview Henry Miller there; she could begin her career as a paparazza that way…
- 1996 December, Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Stephen Watt, Marketing Modernisms: Self-promotion, Canonization, Rereading, University of Michigan Press, page 146:
- Thus at the moment when Joyce is most transparent, when he is most evidently the modernist alienated artist as flâneur, he is also most the star, the object of the paparazza’s intrusive camera.
- 2003, Matthew Lee, Predatory Bender: America in the Aughts, a Story of Subprime Finance — with a non-fiction advocates’ afterword, Inner City Press, →ISBN, page 199:
- Bain wouldn’t return her calls but she knew where he worked. She was not a paparazza but stories were made, not given. Even dead stories could be used to dig around.
- 2004, Alison Jolly, Lords and Lemurs: Mad Scientists, Kings with Spears, and the Survival of Diversity in Madagascar, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 255:
- “When did your brother die?”
“A month ago.” Well, that explained Valiotaky’s appearance. It was taboo for him to wash his clothes or shave until his brother was buried. But even with the backing of Tsiaketraky, the Father-and-Mother, I was troubled. Was I really going to be a horrible paparazza, intruding on a family of strangers in their mourning?
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Noun edit
paparazza f (plural paparazze)
- female equivalent of paparazzo