virruggiu
Sicilian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Akin to virrina. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
[edit]virruggiu m (plural virruggi)
- large auger, gimlet (especially winemaking)
References
[edit]- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 229: “la menarola” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “virruggiu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 4551
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “virruggiu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 5, pages 328–329
- Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “virruggiu”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 927