carcarazza

Sicilian

Alternative forms
  • carcarazzu

Etymology

Possibly from Ancient Greek καρκαίρω (karkaírō). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

carcarazza f (plural carcarazzi)

  1. magpie (Pica pica)
    Synonyms: ciàula, pica, gazza
    vuci di carcarazza ― discordant voice (literally, “magpie's voice”)
  2. a talkative woman; chatterbox
  3. a discordant music instrument (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
  4. a bad spinning top, which while spinning hops and screeches
    Hypernym: strùmmula (“spinning top”)
    fari lu cori comu na carcarazza
    to have one's heart pounding
    (literally, “to have one's heart like a hopping spinning top”)

References
  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 504: “la gazza” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Traina, Antonino (1868) “carcaràzza”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 704–705
  • Pasqualino (c. 1790) “carcarazza”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 259
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