• @[email protected]
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    15 days ago

    Dandelion is called pee the bed (piscialetto) in Italian too. Other Italian names for the same plant are:

    • Dog pisser (pisciacane)
    • Dog tooth (dente di cane)
    • Little grandpa (nonnino)
    • wild chicory (cicoria selvatica)
    • Donkey chicory (cicoria asinina)
    • Pork snout (grugno di porco)
    • Pork fattener (ingrassaporci)
    • Eye stinger (brusaoci, Venetian)
    • Pig salad (insalata di porci. No, not pork salad, pig salad, the animals are still alive)
    • Pork grass (erba del porco)
    • Sunflower of meadows (girasole dei prati)
    • Lion tooth (dente di leone)
    • Big puff (soffione, only the fruit)

    I think the last two are the most common

    • @[email protected]
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      115 days ago

      Wait, I don’t speak Italian, is the meaning of porci in ingrassaporci being pork and porci in insalata di porci being pig distinguished by the lack of preposition and the formation of a compound word or is it just a known thing?

    • loaExMachina [any]
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      115 days ago

      In French it’s also called “pissenlit”, which can be translated the same way if split as " pisse en lit". But although I’d noticed this as a kid, I always thought of it as a joke and assumed the name couldn’t actually come from that…