Definition of piñata
: a decorated vessel (such as of papier-mâché) filled with candies, fruits, and gifts and hung up to be broken with sticks by blindfolded persons as part of especially Latin American festivities (as at Christmas or for a birthday party)
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Origin and Etymology of piñata
Spanish piñata, literally, pot, from Italian pignatta, probably from pigna pinecone — more at pignoli
First Known Use: 1868
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: a decorated container filled with candies, fruits, and gifts that is hung up at parties or celebrations and hit with a stick by children until it is broken and the things inside it fall out
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