giuccu

== Sicilian == === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Old French joc (“chicken roost”). ==== Noun ==== giuccu m (plural giucchi) roost, especially for chickens ==== 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) (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