vucca

• 'ucca (voiced labiodental fricative apheresis)
• ucca (eye dialect)

From Latin bucca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈβukka/ (Received pronunciation)
• IPA^(key): /ˈvukka/ (Older pronunciation)
• Hyphenation: vùc‧ca

vucca f (plural vucchi)

1. (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.

   "Rapi a vucca e fai 'aah'" dissi u dutturi.

   "Open your mouth and say 'aah'," directed the doctor.

2. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.

   A vucca dû ciumi è nu bonu puntu pi taliari l'auceḍḍi nnâ primavera e nni l'autunnu.

   The mouth of the river is a good place to go birdwatching in spring and autumn.

3. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
4. (slang, metonymically) A locutor, a speaker, one who utters.

   Vucca ca nun parra si chiama cucuzza

   Mouth who does not talk is a pumpkin.

5. (slang, metonymically) One person, one head

   Cc'èranu cincu vucchi di fari manciari.

   There were five mouths to feed.

• See Thesaurus:mussu