carcarazza

Sicilian edit

Possibly from Ancient Greek καρκαίρω (karkaírō). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

carcarazza f (plural carcarazzi)

magpie (Pica pica)
Synonyms: ciàula, pica, gazza

vuci di carcarazza ― discordant voice (literally, “magpie's voice”)
a talkative woman; chatterbox
a discordant music instrument (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
a bad spinning top, which while spinning hops and screeches
Hypernym: strùmmula (“spinning top”)

fari lu cori comu na carcarazza
to have one's heart pounding
(literally, “to have one's heart like a hopping spinning top”)

AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 504: “la gazza” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
Traina, Antonino (1868) “carcaràzza”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 704–705
Pasqualino (c. 1790) “carcarazza”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 259