The Sicilian Woman's Daughter

Sicilian / Italian Words and Expressions

Sicilian / Italian Words and Expressions* standard Italian

(otherwise Sicilian dialect)

asetta – sit down

biviti – drink up

buco du culu – arsehole

buon appetito* – enjoy your meal

bagascia – slut

bagasci – sluts

du big bagasci – two big sluts

campagna* – countryside

cannolo – Sicilian cakes with a ricotta filling

cannoli – as above, but plural

capisti? – have you understood?

cassuni – a big drawer (bodies stacked one on top of the other in a cemetery)

cugliuna – balls, testicles

disgraziatu – unfortunate

donna d’onore* – woman of honour, a woman high up in the mafia hierarchy

fittente – stinking, rotten

futtiri – fuck

maliducato – rude person

maliducati – rude people

mangia* – eat

mangiare* – to eat

minghia – prick (word also used to express surprise or to call someone an i***t)

minghiuni – big prick (big i***t)

picciotto – thug

picciotti – thugs

piglati chissu – take that

pignata – cauldron

puttane* – whores

salute e figlie femmini – cheers, (drink to) to female daughters

stra-minghiuni – extra big prick (enormous i***t)

trasi – come in

troia* – slut

troie* – sluts

uomo d’onore* – man of honour, a man high up in the mafia hierarchy

vaffanculo* – f**k it / f**k off

vileno – venom

zoccula – s**t (literally, sandal)

zoccule – sluts