tuppettu

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• tuppetta

Etymology

Compare French toupie, English top. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tuppettu m (plural tuppetti)

1. (games, eastern Sicily) spinning top

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:strùmmula

References

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “tuppetta, tuppettu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 4395