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finnochia

finnochia is the obsolete spelling of finocchio.

Meaning of finocchio

Noun

finocchio (plural finocchi or finocchios)

  1. A fennel cultivar with a bulb-like structure at its base, used as a vegetable; Florence fennel (Foeniculum vulgare var. azoricum).
    • Finocchios are shoots of the fennel, an odoriferous plant of the Umbelliferae family.1974, Ali-Bab (author) and Elizabeth Benson (translator), Encyclopedia of Practical Gastronomy, page 41
    Synonyms:
    Florence fennel
  2. (derogatory, slang) A gay man.
    • On many, a cold freezing night, of temperatures hovering near zero, the finocchios tease and try to encourage Tedesco to join in their warm body orgies.2008, Edward Anthony Gibbons, A Cultural Affair, page 6

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Questions about finnochia

What is finnochia the obsolete spelling of?
Finnochia is the obsolete spelling of finocchio.

Words near finnochia in the dictionary

  1. Finno-Ugricists
  2. Finno-Ugrist
  3. Finno-Ugrists
  4. finnoc
  5. finnocchio
  6. finnochia
  7. finnochio
  8. finnock
  9. finnocks
  10. finnocs
  11. Finnophone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: finnochia (page history and authors); finocchio (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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