finocchio

/fɪˈnɒkɪəʊ/

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Finocchio.

name

  1. A surname from Italian.

noun

  1. A fennel cultivar with a bulb-like structure at its base, used as a vegetable; Florence fennel (Foeniculum vulgare var. azoricum).“Finocchios are shoots of the fennel, an odoriferous plant of the Umbelliferae family.”
  2. A gay man.“On many, a cold freezing night, of temperatures hovering near zero, the finocchios tease and try to encourage Tedesco to join in their warm body orgies.”