scorno-scorno: meaning, definitions and translations

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What is scorno?

  • Privare delle corna, rompere un corno a un animale.
    Deprive of horns, break a horn to an animal.
  • fig. Mettere in ridicolo, canzonare.
    Fig. Ridicule, mock.
  • Incornare: il toro ha scornato il torero ║ assol. Dare cornate.
    Frame: the bull has scorned the bullfighter ║ absolved. Give horns.
  • Rompersi le corna: il caprone si è scornato.
    Breaking horns: the goat has flayed.
  • fig. Subire uno smacco clamoroso e umiliante, fallire in un’impresa.
    Fig. To suffer a resounding and humiliating failure, to fail in an enterprise.