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Sicilian
Etymology
From s- + cùnchiri.
Verb
scùnchiri (past participle scunchiutu) (intransitive)
- to faint
- scùnchiri lu cori ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- to languish (become weak)
- to emaciate (grow thin)
- (of a liquid) to evaporate
- (of paper) to blot (suck ink)
References
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “scunchiudiri”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 3751
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “scunchiri”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 4, page 414
- Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “scùnchiri”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 777