vucca
Appearance
Sicilian
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[edit]Noun
[edit]vucca f (plural vucchi)
- (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
- "Rapi a vucca e fai 'aah'" dissi u dutturi.
- "Open your mouth and say 'aah'," directed the doctor.
- The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
- A vucca dû ciumi è nu bonu puntu pi taliari l'auceḍḍi nnâ primavera e nni l'autunnu.
- The mouth of the river is a good place to go birdwatching in spring and autumn.
- An outlet, aperture or orifice.
- (slang, metonymically) A locutor, a speaker, one who utters.
- Vucca ca nun parra si chiama cucuzza
- Mouth who does not talk is a pumpkin.
- (slang, metonymically) One person, one head
- Cc'èranu cincu vucchi di fari manciari.
- There were five mouths to feed.
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