jocu di focu

Sicilian

Etymology

Literally, “game of fire”.

Noun

jocu di focu m (plural jochi di focu)

1. firework

   Synonym: focu d'artifizziu

   jochi di focu a la rumana ― (please add an English translation of this usage example) (literally, “Roman fireworks”)

   fari un jocu di focu ― to make noise, din (literally, “to make a firework”)

   finiri a jocu di focu ― to go wrong

Descendants

• → Maltese: ġigġifogu, ġigdifogu, ġifġifogu, ġogdifogu

References

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “jocu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 2176

Further reading

• jocu di focu on the Sicilian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^scn