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Sicilian
Etymology
Literally, “game of fire”.
Noun
jocu di focu m (plural jochi di focu)
- firework
- Synonym: focu d'artifizziu
- jochi di focu a la rumana ― (please add an English translation of this usage example) (literally, “Roman fireworks”)
- fari un jocu di focu ― to make noise, din (literally, “to make a firework”)
- finiri a jocu di focu ― to go wrong
Descendants
References
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “jocu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 2176
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