motteggiare
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mot.tedˈd͡ʒa.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: mot‧teg‧già‧re
Verb
motteggiàre (first-person singular present mottéggio, first-person singular past historic motteggiài, past participle motteggiàto, auxiliary avére) (literary, rare)
- (transitive) to tease; to needle
- 1980, Umberto Eco, “Primo giorno - Sesta”, in Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose] (I grandi tascabili), Milan: Bompiani, published 1984, page 71:
- "Che vaneggiava di macchine volanti," motteggiò amaramente Ubertino.
- "Who fantasized about flying machines," harshly needled Ubertino.
- (intransitive) to speak wittily; to quip [auxiliary avere]
- (intransitive, archaic) to have a pleasant conversation [auxiliary avere]
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