bajocco – English noun declension

Noun: bajocco

Singular	bajocco
Plural	bajoccos; bajocchi

I have heard a brother of the story-telling trade, at Naples, preaching to a pack of good-for-nothing honest lazy fellows by the sea-shore, work himself up into such a rage and passion with some of the villains whose wicked deeds he was describing and inventing, that the audience could not resist it; and they and the poet together would burst out into a roar of oaths and execrations against the fictitious monster of the tale, so that the hat went round, and the bajocchi tumbled into it, in the midst of a perfect storm of sympathy. [1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 8, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:]

From an archaic spelling of Italian baiocco, from baio (“brown”), after its color. See: Italian Nouns 'baiocco'.

English noun forms of bajocco