stiletto

Borrowed from Italian stiletto. Doublet of stylet.

• (US) IPA^(key): /stɪˈlɛtoʊ/, [stɪˈlɛɾoʊ]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /stɪˈletəʊ/

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stiletto (plural stilettos or stilettoes or stiletti)

1. A small, slender knife or dagger-like weapon intended for stabbing.
   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Tremarn Case‎:

     “There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”

2. A rapier.
3. An awl.
4. A woman's shoe with a tall, slender heel (called a stiletto heel).
5. (obsolete, historical) A beard trimmed into a pointed form. [16th–17th c.]

   Synonyms: bodkin beard, pique-devant

   • 1636, John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble

     The very quack of fashions, the very he that / Wears a stiletto on his chin.

• stiletto fly
• stiletto heel

stiletto (third-person singular simple present stilettos, present participle stilettoing, simple past and past participle stilettoed)

1. (transitive) To attack or kill with a stiletto (dagger).
   • 1834, Henry Tudor, Narrative of a Tour in North America

     The recollection of former atrocities by the populace in plundering the city and stilettoing the inhabitants, is sufficiently fresh in the remembrance of the government to serve as an additional stimulus to prevent similar disorders.

From Italian stiletto.

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stiletto f (plural ?, diminutive stilettoke n)

1. stiletto

• hoge hakken (both for shoe and heel itself)

From stilo (“needle, stylus”) +‎ -etto.

stiletto m (plural stiletti)

1. (weaponry) stiletto, dagger

• stilettata

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

stiletto

1. first-person singular present indicative of stilettare

Unadapted borrowing from Italian stiletto.

• IPA^(key): /estiˈleto/ [es.t̪iˈle.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -eto

stiletto m (plural stilettos)

1. stiletto

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