mammaluccu

Sicilian

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic مَمْلُوك‎ (mamlūk). Compare Italian mammalucco, French mamelouk.

Noun

mammaluccu m (plural mammalucchi)

  1. mameluke
    • c. 1786, Giovanni Meli, chapter VI, in Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza, stanza 76:
      L’imbriacu gridau: tacíti, o cucchi, ¶ Sù lu regnanti di li Mammalucchi.
      The drunk man yelled: shut up, or sleep, I'm the king of the mamelukes.
  2. slug
    Coordinate term: babbaluci (“snail”)
  3. fool
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:babbu

References
  • Traina, Antonino (1868), “mammaluccu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 2354
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