culaccino
Language: Italian · [kulatˈtʃiːno] · Pronunciation: koo-lah-CHEE-noh
Meaning
the pale circle a wet glass leaves on the table
The story
Italian dictionaries put the salami first: a culaccino is the end of a sausage or the heel of a loaf. Treccani lists the other sense as well, marked uncommon, and that is the one the internet fell in love with, the print a cold glass leaves on the wood.
The four rounds
- Which language is it from?
- Italian
- What does it literally say?
- Small bottom
- Where would you hear it?
- A café table after a cold beer
- What does it mean?
- The pale halo left by a cold glass
How it went
Round three, situation, was where most points went.
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