I just found this great children's song called "il gatto puzzolone". I am trying to translate it myself as a practice assignment.

My question is: does the title, "il gatto puzzolone" translate to "the stinky cat" or "the stinking cat" ? In my dictionary, I only have the adjective PUZZOLENTE.

Here's a link to the video for everyone to see this funny song

Puzzolone is not correct Italian, the right word is puzzolente, as your dictionary suggests.
My dictionary translates it both as stinky or stinking, and to tell the truth I don't get the difference... Anyway, I can be wrong but I would prefer stinky, seems to me the most appropriate translation.

I thought the "one" on the end usually indicates "very" - there is no real English equivalent. I would translate it as "The very smelly cat"

Thanks Stef. I didn't think it was correct. I guess it could be written off as "slang"

Really?? I didn't know about the "one" meaning. Would that be used with my last name also? it is Perrone

Nope, not in that case, unless it's a very dialectal Neapolitan way to say Big stone, but I don't think so.

Adding -one to an adjective you make it bigger, like macchinone (a big car), grassone (very fat), puzzone (very stinky). Puzzolone seems just a funny word for kids. Beware though, not all -one as word finals are suffixes meaning bigger.

We also have -accia (vecchiaccia=horrible old lady) to worsen adjectives;
-ina -etto to make them less big (macchinina=little car || barchetta=a little boat), they can also be used to sweeten adjs

But their use is somewhat complicated, not all adjectives get along fine with those suffixes, the shades of meaning are a lot and can vary.
Best not to use them if you're not on proficiency level, you'd risk getting misunderstood, but it's good to know they exist in case you meet them.

Sorry for the broken horrible English, I've just done Spanish Language III exam and I'm full immersed en el espanol

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thanks a million, Zidanie for the wonderful post
I like that you generalized the subject

btw, i don't think it was a horrible English at all
maybe mine

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Yes thanks for the simplified examples Zidanie!! That sure helps me a lot.