punchinello

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No sympathy, no best wishes rose to greet brown, broad-shouldered Champion Max Baer as that prime poseur, playboy and punchinello of the U. S. prize ring parted the ropes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like a maddened punchinello, he flailed at the gathering crowds of refugees, screaming at them to back away from the bank.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is neither a gentleman in manner nor in feeling, but a sort of buffoon, a punchinello, a pantaloon.

From Twenty Years After by Dumas père, Alexandre

When he had finished he took out from the sack labelled "Rewards" a little trumpet, a punchinello, a drum, and a paper windmill, and handed them round.

From The City Curious by Bosschère, Jean de

So contemptible had the Pope become, even in the eyes of devout Catholics, that de Maistre called the inflexible but supine Pontiff a punchinello of no importance.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan