Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The feminine form of capocchio, a fool: used coaxingly in the following passage.

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Examples

  • Alas, poor wretch! ah, poor capocchia! hast not slept to-night? would he not, a naughty man, let it sleep?

    Troilus and Cressida 2004

  • Alas, poor wretch! ah, poor capocchia! hast not slept to-night? would he not, a naughty man, let it sleep?

    Troilus and Cressida 1601

  • a poor capocchia! hast not slept to-night? would he not, a naughty man, let it sleep?

    Act IV. Scene II. Troilus and Cressida 1914

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