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- - punch
  - punch-drunk
  - punch-up
  - punchbag
  - punchball
  - punchboard
  - punchbowl
  - punched card
  - punched tape
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  - Punchinello
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  - punchy
  - puncta
  - punctate
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Punchinello

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Punchinello /ˌpʌn(t)ʃɪˈnɛləʊ/

▶noun (pl. Punchinellos)

1 another name for punch4 (sense 1).

2 archaic a short, stout, comical-looking person.

– origin C17: alt. of Neapolitan dial. Polecenella, perh. a dimin. of pollecena ‘young turkey cock with a hooked beak’.

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