frocio

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfrɔ.t͡ʃo/
• Rhymes: -ɔtʃo
• Hyphenation: frò‧cio

Etymology 1

Probably from frocia (“nostril”).

Noun

frocio m (plural froci) (derogatory, Rome, dated)

1. a German

   Synonym: crucco

   • 1909, Cesare Pascarella, “La musica nostra”, in Sonetti:

     Be’, che dice? Che l’opera italiana / È la più mejo musica der monno. / E tu che soni appena la campana, / Me venghi a di’ che er frocio sia profonno?

     Well, what does she say? That Italian opera is the best music of the world. And you who barely play the bell come telling me that the German is deep?

Etymology 2

Uncertain.

• Likely from Latin flūxus (passed through a minor Italian cognate stratum). Cognate with floscio (and the regional froscio), Galician frouxo, Portuguese chocho, Sicilian frocia, Spanish flojo.
• Others believe to be same as above, with a semantical shift. Alternatively from Venetian fenocio (“(slang) gay”) with rhoticisation of the /-n-/ by influence of the above term.

Alternative forms

• froscio
• frocia (LGBT slang)
• frocie (LGBT slang, collective)

Adjective

frocio (feminine frocia, masculine plural froci, feminine plural frocie) (derogatory, originally Rome)

1. (vulgar, mostly derogatory) gay, homosexual

Noun

frocio m (plural froci) (derogatory, originally Rome)

1. (vulgar, derogatory, outgroup) gay man, poof, faggot

   Synonyms: finocchio, aricchione, ricchione, busone, purpo, checca, checca isterica

   1. (by extension, derogatory, outgroup) weak person, unmanly person

   Synonyms: femminuccia, mammoletta

2. (friendly, ingroup) homosexual person, especially a gay man

   Synonyms: amo, amio, finocchia

Synonyms

• (endearing) frocia, frocetta
• (derogatory): aricchione, invertito, finocchio

Derived terms

• frocetto
• frociaggine
• frociata
• frocino
• frocione

 

Descendants

• →? Sicilian: frocia

Related terms

• moscio

 

See also

• gay
• lesbica
• non binario
• transgender

 

Anagrams

• orfico