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Christian Biggins

@sarahbecan that's fantastic. While trying to get an Italian version of "Big fraidy cat" for my dog I had to settle for Grande spavantoso Gatto. Super cool but he ain't liberating.

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Eleventy-one

@biggie @sarahbecan Spaventoso means frightening, not frightened, so grande spaventoso gatto (grande gatto spaventoso would be the more usual word order) means big terrifying cat, not big terrified cat. 🙀

There's no Italian expression with gatto that means fraidy/scaredy cat. Best to call your poor pooch a fifone (pronounced fee-FOH-né) instead (or a fifona if it's a female). :blobcatdrakeyes:

ltalian - English dictionary entry

fifone
I adjective informal
chicken, chicken-hearted, cowardly

Il (fifona) masculine noun, feminine noun informal
chicken, scaredy cat, funk; 
è un gran fifone
he's a scaredy cat
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