talpone

Italian

Etymology

From talpa +‎ -one.

Noun

talpone m (plural talponi)

1. Augmentative of talpa; a large mole
   1. (colloquial, figurative) a lazy, sedentary and disinterested person; couch potato
   2. (Tuscan) sewer rat

      Synonyms: topo di fogna, surmolotto, ratto delle chiaviche

2. (weaponry) tool used to adjust the parallelism between the axis of the barrel and the line of sight

Further reading

• talpone on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• talpone in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• talpone in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Anagrams

• Lepanto, Platone, pentola, platone, polenta