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Neapolitan
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin scōpa (“broom”), but the precise derivation is unclear. Compare Italian scoviglio. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
scupillo m (plural scupille)
- brush, scrubbing brush
- scupillo de Palermo ― (please add an English translation of this usage example) (literally, “Palermitan brush”)
- toilet brush
anonymous author, edited by Angelo Manna, L'inferno della Poesia Napoletana (overall work in Italian), Del Delfino, published 1991, →ISBN, page 408:Scarola ‘e ll’uorto ¶ scupillo stuorto ¶ hai raggione e nun hai tuorto ¶ va fa’ ‘mmocca a chi t’è muorto!- Escarole from the garden ¶ crooked toilet brush ¶ you're right and aren't wrong ¶ may your dead ones go fuck themselves!
References
- Andreoli, Raffaele (1887) “scupillo”, in Vocabolario napoletano-italiano (in Italian), page 630
- D'Ambra, Raffaele (1873) “scopillo”, in Vocabolario napolitano-toscano domestico di arti e mestieri (in Italian), page 338