giuccu
Sicilian
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from Old French joc (“chicken roost”).
Noun
editgiuccu m (plural giucchi)
Further reading
edit- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1139: “il bastone del pollaio” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
Etymology 2
editCompare Italian ciucco, giucco.
Noun
editgiuccu m (plural giucchi)
- (derogatory) half-wit (inept person)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:babbu
References
edit- Traina, Antonino (1868) “giuccu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 1853
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “giuccu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 2, page 228
- Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “giuccu”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 424