carcarazza
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Sicilian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Possibly from Ancient Greek καρκαίρω (karkaírō). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun[edit]
carcarazza f (plural carcarazzi)
- magpie (Pica pica)
- a talkative woman; chatterbox
- a discordant music instrument (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
- a bad spinning top, which while spinning hops and screeches
- Hypernym: strùmmula (“spinning top”)
References[edit]
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 504: “la gazza” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “carcaràzza”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 704–705
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “carcarazza”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 259