punchinello

name

1. A traditional Italian puppet, in the form of a short fat clown.

noun

1. (broadly)Somebody who resembles this character; a grotesque buffoon.
2. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of Punchinello.

   “The children of George III played with an eight-inch-long rattle made of gold and coral and decorated with gold bells. The little King of Rome, Napoleon's son, had one with the face formed as a punchinello with an ivory handle and eight bells, in fact, a poupard. This punchinello had Napoleon's face, made expressly in order for his son.”

3. A small brown butterfly, Zemeros flegyas, family Riodinidae, of Asia.