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

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

From Los Angeles Times

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

From BBC

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

From BBC

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

From BBC

Ainsworth, also from the U.K., voiced Pinocchio in Disney+’s live-action “Pinocchio” in 2022 and played Miles in Netflix’s “The Haunting of Bly Manor.”

From Los Angeles Times