Pinocchio

[pi-noh-kee-oh]

noun

1. the hero of Carlo Collodi's children's story, The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883), a wooden puppet who comes to life as a boy and whose nose grows longer whenever he tells a lie.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Pinocchio¹

< Italian: literally, pine seed, pine cone, equivalent to pin ( o ) pine ¹ + -occhio < Vulgar Latin *-uc ( u ) lu ( m ), Latin -i-culum; -i-, -cule ¹

Example Sentences

Fossil evidence shows that Tyrannosaurs thrived in North America for several million years before returning to Asia, where their lineage split into two branches: one evolved into massive predators like T. rex, while the other produced more slender, long-snouted types nicknamed "Pinocchio rexes."

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Hey, hey, they’re the Runarounds, the latest Pinocchio band to straddle the line between fiction and fact.

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Del Toro answered with two names: "Pinocchio and Frankenstein."

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The first film, Del Toro's acclaimed dark-fantasy version of Pinocchio, arrived in 2022.

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It features scenes of the rapper running from a pursuer in a Pinocchio mask - a symbol fans interpreted as "lies" following Drake around.

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