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finochie

finochie 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 finochie

What is finochie the obsolete spelling of?
Finochie is the obsolete spelling of finocchio.

Words near finochie in the dictionary

  1. finocchio
  2. finocchios
  3. finocha
  4. finochi
  5. finochia
  6. finochie
  7. finochii
  8. finochio
  9. finofibrate
  10. finofibrates
  11. finoki

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Adapted from Wiktionary: finochie (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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