Pinocchio

UK: /pɪˈnɒkɪəʊ/ US: (pi nō′kē ō′)

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Pi•no•cchi•o  (pi nō′kē ō′), n. 

1. Literature 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.

• Vulgar Latin *-uc(u)lu(m), Latin -i-culum; see -i-, -cule¹
• Italian: literally, pine seed, pine cone, equivalent. to pin(o) pine¹ + -occhio