sfirrari

Sicilian

Etymology

From s- + ferru + -ari. Compare Italian sferrare.

Verb

sfirrari (past participle sfirratu)

  1. (transitive, farriery) to unshoe (a horse)
    • a. 1368, “Di la guardia...”, in La Giordano Ruffo volgarizzata in siciliano, line 21, page 572:
      E sachi ki quantu plui si ferra lu cavallu iuvini tantu plui li soi unghi diventanu debili e molli, kí lu usu di andari sferatu genera da la sua iuvintuti li soi unghi duri e grandi.
      And know that the younger the horse is shoed the more his hooves become weak and soft, because the practice of going unshoed yields big and strong hooves from his youth.
  2. (intransitive)
    1. (of a clock) to ring out of time or generally unpleasingly
    2. to leave angrily
    3. to have a licentious life (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
    4. to get angry; to fly off the handle
      • c. 1786, Giovanni Meli, chapter VIII, in Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza, stanza 8:
        Qualchi vota è benefica, e in cert’uriSi fa tiranna, incrudelisci, e sferra [].
        Sometimes she's kind, and sometimes she becomes tyrant, cruel, and flies off the handle.
  3. (reflexive) See sfirràrisi and sfirrarisilla.

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References

  • Traina, Antonino (1868), “sfirrari”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 3830
  • sferrato”, in TLIO – Tesoro della lingua italiana delle origini
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