"babbaluci" meaning in Sicilian

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        "3": "بَبُّوش",
        "t": "snail"
      },
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    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "scn",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "βουβαλάκιον"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek βουβαλάκιον (boubalákion)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
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        "t1": "buffalo"
      },
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "small buffalo"
      },
      "expansion": "“small buffalo”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "small buffalo"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “small buffalo”",
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    },
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        "1": "snail"
      },
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    },
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      },
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      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "vava",
        "3": "luci",
        "nocat": "1",
        "t1": "spit, saliva",
        "t2": "light"
      },
      "expansion": "vava (“spit, saliva”) + luci (“light”)",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From a conflation of\n* babbucia, from Maghrebi Arabic بَبُّوش (babbūš, “snail”), from a Berber language. Compare Maltese bebbux (“snail”).\n* buvalaci, from Ancient Greek βουβαλάκιον (boubalákion), from βούβαλος (boúbalos, “buffalo”) + -άκιον (-ákion, diminutive suffix). Literally, “small buffalo”, with a semantic shift to “snail”.\nAn outdated folk etymology derives this from vava (“spit, saliva”) + luci (“light”), because of the shining trail the animal leaves.",
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      "form": "babbaluci",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      },
      "expansion": "babbaluci m",
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      "args": {
        "1": "babbaluc",
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        "3": "i",
        "4": "i"
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  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "bab‧ba‧lù‧ci"
  ],
  "lang": "Sicilian",
  "lang_code": "scn",
  "pos": "noun",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "spiral staircase (literally, “staircase like a snail”)",
          "text": "scala a babbaluci",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "marine/fluvial mollusk (literally, “water snail”)",
          "text": "babbaluci d'acqua",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "purple storm snail (Janthina janthina)",
          "text": "babbaluci cilesti",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "pot calling the kettle black (literally, “the snail makes fun of the turtle”)",
          "text": "lu babbaluci trizzìa la tartuca",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "These like like those who don't dare to take the path or track because of the snails that show them the horns, and kids who don't dare to go because of the geese who squawk.",
          "ref": "14th century, chapter 42, in Libru di li vitii et di li virtuti, page 38, line 5:",
          "text": "Quisti assimiglanu a quilli li quali non ausanu intrari in lu senteri sive violu per li babaluchi ki li mostranu li corna, et pichulilli ki non ausanu andari per via per li ocki ki cridanu.",
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      ],
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        "snail"
      ],
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        [
          "snail",
          "snail"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "english": "slug",
          "word": "mammaluccu"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ruccaloru"
        },
        {
          "word": "scataddittu"
        },
        {
          "word": "vavalaggiu"
        },
        {
          "word": "lumaca"
        },
        {
          "word": "cavalaggiu"
        },
        {
          "word": "cignu"
        },
        {
          "word": "bardareddu"
        },
        {
          "word": "babbaluciu"
        },
        {
          "word": "vavaluci"
        },
        {
          "word": "vavalucu"
        },
        {
          "word": "vavalucia"
        },
        {
          "word": "bucalaci"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[babbaˈluçɪ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "babbaluci"
}

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      "name": "bor"
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      "name": "bor"
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        "t1": "buffalo"
      },
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      "name": "af"
    },
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        "1": "small buffalo"
      },
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        "1": "small buffalo"
      },
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        "t2": "light"
      },
      "expansion": "vava (“spit, saliva”) + luci (“light”)",
      "name": "af"
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  "etymology_text": "From a conflation of\n* babbucia, from Maghrebi Arabic بَبُّوش (babbūš, “snail”), from a Berber language. Compare Maltese bebbux (“snail”).\n* buvalaci, from Ancient Greek βουβαλάκιον (boubalákion), from βούβαλος (boúbalos, “buffalo”) + -άκιον (-ákion, diminutive suffix). Literally, “small buffalo”, with a semantic shift to “snail”.\nAn outdated folk etymology derives this from vava (“spit, saliva”) + luci (“light”), because of the shining trail the animal leaves.",
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      "expansion": "babbaluci m",
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        "1": "babbaluc",
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    "bab‧ba‧lù‧ci"
  ],
  "lang": "Sicilian",
  "lang_code": "scn",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "english": "slug",
      "word": "mammaluccu"
    }
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        "scn:Mollusks"
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        {
          "english": "spiral staircase (literally, “staircase like a snail”)",
          "text": "scala a babbaluci",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "marine/fluvial mollusk (literally, “water snail”)",
          "text": "babbaluci d'acqua",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "purple storm snail (Janthina janthina)",
          "text": "babbaluci cilesti",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "pot calling the kettle black (literally, “the snail makes fun of the turtle”)",
          "text": "lu babbaluci trizzìa la tartuca",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "These like like those who don't dare to take the path or track because of the snails that show them the horns, and kids who don't dare to go because of the geese who squawk.",
          "ref": "14th century, chapter 42, in Libru di li vitii et di li virtuti, page 38, line 5:",
          "text": "Quisti assimiglanu a quilli li quali non ausanu intrari in lu senteri sive violu per li babaluchi ki li mostranu li corna, et pichulilli ki non ausanu andari per via per li ocki ki cridanu.",
          "type": "quote"
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      "glosses": [
        "snail"
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          "snail",
          "snail"
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        {
          "word": "ruccaloru"
        },
        {
          "word": "scataddittu"
        },
        {
          "word": "vavalaggiu"
        },
        {
          "word": "lumaca"
        },
        {
          "word": "cavalaggiu"
        },
        {
          "word": "cignu"
        },
        {
          "word": "bardareddu"
        }
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        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[babbaˈluçɪ]"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "word": "babbaluciu"
    },
    {
      "word": "vavaluci"
    },
    {
      "word": "vavalucu"
    },
    {
      "word": "vavalucia"
    },
    {
      "word": "bucalaci"
    }
  ],
  "word": "babbaluci"
}