bugio

From English boogie, of uncertain origin.

• IPA^(key): [buˈɡio]
• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: bu‧gi‧o

bugio (uncountable, accusative bugion)

1. (music) boogie-woogie

Perhaps a confluence of buco and pertugio.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.d͡ʒo/
• Rhymes: -udʒo
• Hyphenation: bù‧gio

bugio (feminine bugia, masculine plural bugi, feminine plural bugie or buge)

1. (obsolete) hollow
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XX, lines 25–27, page 360:

     così, rimosso d'aspettare indugio, ¶ quel mormorar de l'aguglia salissi ¶ su per lo collo, come fosse bugio.

     Even thus, relieved from the delay of waiting, that murmuring of the eagle mounted up along its neck, as if it had been hollow.

   Synonyms: bucato, cavo

From Bugia (“Béjaïa”), from Arabic بِجَايَة‎ (bijāya); English boogie, Italian bugia.

• Hyphenation: bu‧gi‧o

bugio m (plural bugios)

1. howler monkey

   Synonym: macaco