giuccu

Sicilian

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

• 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

Compare Italian ciucco, giucco.

Noun

giuccu m (plural giucchi)

1. (derogatory) half-wit (inept person)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:babbu

References

• 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