mazza
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[edit]Etymology 1
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Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]mazza (countable and uncountable, plural mazzas)
- (MLE) Madness; something that is mad; a crazy situation.
- 2018, AM Skengdo (lyrics and music), “Diligent Members” (track 4), in Greener on the Other Side, performed by Skengdo x AM:
- Must have thought I was one of the paigons / Left a trace and my yard got raided / It's a mazza / He was talking tough 'till I chased man down with a ladder
References
[edit]- “mazza n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
Etymology 2
[edit]See meze.
Noun
[edit]mazza
- Alternative form of meze.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Vulgar Latin *mattea (compare French masse, Spanish maza, Portuguese maça), probably vulgarly formed from Latin mateola (“hoe”). Cf. also Latin matia.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mazza f (plural mazze)
- baton
- club (weapon)
- mace (ceremonial weapon)
- (sports) bat
- sledgehammer
- maul
- mallet
- (vulgar) penis
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cazzo
- priest (tool for killing fishes)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- mazza in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- mazza in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
Maltese
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m-z-z |
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian mazza and/or Sicilian mazza, from Vulgar Latin *mattea.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mazza f (plural mazez)
Sicilian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Vulgar Latin *mattea, probably vulgarly formed from Latin mateola.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mazza f (plural mazzi)
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