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Sicilian
Etymology
Borrowed from Byzantine Greek καρακάξα (karakáxa, “jay”), influenced by carcariari (“to cackle, squawk, of birds”).
Noun
carcarazza f (plural carcarazzi)
- magpie (Pica pica)
- Synonyms: ciàula, pica, gazza
- vuci di carcarazza ― discordant voice (literally, “magpie's voice”)
- 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”)
fari lu cori comu na carcarazza- to have one's heart pounding
- (literally, “to have one's heart like a hopping spinning top”)
Derived terms
References
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – 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