paparazza

plural paparazze · plural paparazzas

1. A female paparazzo.

   Eventually the harried waitress turns paparazza and drives them out with flashbulbs.

   1991, Barry Brummett, Rhetorical Dimensions of Popular Culture, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 122

   5 more examples

   ^({1}) This Sophie he often talks to her about, who helps support her old sick parents so nobly and has just won a big prize for her writing, how did she go about finding herself as a paparazza? ^({2}) […] she might eventually interview Henry Miller there; she could begin her career as a paparazza that way…

   1981, Francine du Plessix Gray, World Without End: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 149^({1}) & 150^({2})

   “Keeping her away from us will only rouse her interest all the more,” Zarah stated flatly. “Especially if she turns out to be a journalist or a paparazza. Worse yet, who knows? She could even be a spy working for our competitors.”

   1992, Judith Gould, Forever, Dutton, →ISBN, page 208

   “How’s my favorite paparazza?” Stan said, grabbing me around the waist in an embrace that threatened to squash my cameras between us.

   1996 June, Judy Collins, Shameless: A Novel, Pocket Star Books, →ISBN, page 116

   Thus at the moment when Joyce is most transparent, when he is most evidently the modernist alienated artist as flâneur, he is also most the star, the object of the paparazza’s intrusive camera.

   1996 December, Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Stephen Watt, Marketing Modernisms: Self-promotion, Canonization, Rereading, University of Michigan Press, page 146

   “Have we a delegate of the press? La paparazza, in hot pursuit? Or ambush … Oh, my dear girl, nasty scratch.”

   1998, Kai Maristed, Belong to Me: Stories, Random House, →ISBN, page 67

   Synonyms: mamarazzi