giuccu

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Sicilian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Old French joc (“chicken roost”).

Noun[edit]

giuccu m (plural giucchi)

  1. roost, especially for chickens
    jiri a lu giuccu
    to go to sleep
    (literally, “to go to the roost”)

Further reading[edit]

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1139: “il bastone del pollaio” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Etymology 2[edit]

Compare Italian ciucco, giucco.

Noun[edit]

giuccu m (plural giucchi)

  1. (derogatory) half-wit (inept person)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:babbu

References[edit]

  • Traina, Antonino (1868), “giuccu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 1853
  • Pasqualino (c. 1790), “giuccu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 2, page 228
  • Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862), “giuccu”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 424
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