griccio
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Perhaps alteration of riccio (“curled”).
Adjective
[edit]griccio (feminine griccia, masculine plural gricci, feminine plural gricce)
- (archaic) curled, wrinkled
- Synonyms: arricciolato, increspato
- (Tuscany) stingy (unwilling to spend)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]griccio m (plural gricci)
- (archaic) whim, caprice
- Synonyms: capriccio, ghiribizzo, (archaic or literary) gricciolo
- (Tuscany) joke
- Synonym: scherzo
- (regional) shiver
- (regional, in the plural) tickling