sescare
Neapolitan
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Pronunciation
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- to whistle
- Quanno 'o ciuccio nun vò bevere, hai voglia do siscà.
- When the donkey doesn't want to drink, it wants to whistle.
References
edit- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 752: “fischiare; fischia” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “sescare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano