Hypertext Webster Gateway: "punchinello"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Punchinello \Pun`chi*nel"lo\, n. [It. pulcinella, probably
originally a word of endearment, dim. of pulcina, pulcino, a
chicken, from L. pullicenus, pullus. See {Pullet}.]
A punch; a buffoon; originally, in a puppet show, a character
represented as fat, short, and humpbacked. --Spectator.
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.