Talk:Minchiate

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in sicilian dialect minchia means "dick" so minchione in the article translated as "fool" is the literally "big dick" --Melaen 14:54, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

I saw that someone had added a bit about this word to the article on Latin profanity, and mentions it as a survival from Classical mentula. The etymology seems plausible, and I have added it and appropriate links to the article. Thanks. Smerdis of Tlön 14:15, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Right, and I've always heard "minchiata" used like "cazzata", which in turn comes from 'cazzo' - Italian for 'dick'. Both minchiate and cazzate mean "something stupid"... sort of how one might use "what a bunch of BS" in English.

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