Etymology

pignoli

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Today it means: pine nuts Full definition →

Italian pinoli
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The story

  1. Italian · borrowed frompinoli“pine nuts”
  2. English todaypignoli

From Italian pinoli (“pine nuts”) (by confusion with pignoli (“fussy people”)?).

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