monco

Perhaps a blend of manco +‎ tronco.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmon.ko/
• Rhymes: -onko
• Hyphenation: món‧co

monco (feminine monca, masculine plural monchi, feminine plural monche)

1. maimed, mutilated

   Synonym: mutilato

2. (uncommon) crippled

   Synonym: storpio

3. (figurative) incomplete

   Synonyms: mozzo, smozzicato, tronco

4. wrong, incorrect

   Synonyms: manchevole, errato

   • early 14^th century, Dante, “Canto XIII”, in Inferno, lines 28–30:

     Però disse ’l maestro: “Se tu tronchi / qualche fraschetta d’una d’este piante, / li pensier c’hai si faran tutti monchi”.

     Therefore the master said: "If thou break off some little spray from any of these trees, the thoughts thou hast will wholly be made vain." ⁠

• moncherino
• monchezza
• monchino
• moncone

• monco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Latin muccus, a variant of mūcus, from Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slimy, slippery”). Doublet of muco.

monco m (plural moncos)

1. nasal mucus; booger