questions/elucidations about hirelings (fantasy munchkin 1-9 + conan)

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in the italian version all the hirelings that have a class or race in the title (thief/warrior/wizard/bardo/chieric/ranger/halfling/dwarf/elf/gnome/ork/lizard/centaur/) have (at least) the sentence "can carry and use..." (expansions 1-9)


anyway, so (for the hirelings that is allowed to equip an item on themselves) can they also equip a Big item on themselves?

extreme example: i am playing with a big item (i don't have card that let me add other big items), i then equip a gnome hireling. so now my limit is 2 big items equipped/carried + 1 (potential) big item equipped by the gnome. (so 3 counting the hireling)

sorry if i ask you these boring questions but after the first 2 hirelings realised (with core set and third expansion) the "even if you could not otherwise" is not printed anymore on the card