From the notebooks of Constance Eakins, a selected Triestine glossary:
| ˆpis |
pencil |
| bacolo |
cockroach |
| bacuco |
an old and scatterbrained person |
| bazilar |
to worry |
| braghe |
trousers |
| bubez |
apprentice, attendant, boy |
| cagarabia |
said of someone who is easily roused to anger |
| capuzo |
cabbage (a variety of) |
| ciapin |
clothes-peg |
| ciau |
hello, goodbye |
| cinciut |
a malign spirit that haunts sleeping children in the night. |
| cluca |
door handle |
| cogoma |
coffee pot or teapot with a handle and a small beak |
| conzapignate |
tin man |
| conzar |
to get dolled up |
| cucer |
coachman |
| fapunte |
pencil sharpener |
| garbo |
sour, unripe, sharp |
| Juzza |
a countryman from the Carso who comes to Trieste to sell the
produce of his farm |
| luganiga |
sausage |
| mela |
a cigarette that is lit and then extinguished, but before it's
fully consumed |
| mussati |
mosquitoes |
| paiola |
dandruff |
| patoc |
torrent, brook, stream |
| petes |
booze |
| pizigamorti |
undertaker |
| pomigar |
to waste time while appearing busy |
| russak |
backpack |
| saldini |
hair-grip |
| sbafada |
stuffed, with food |
| sbrodigar |
to make a mess |
| scovaze |
trash |
| scovazon |
dustbin |
| sine |
tracks |
| slonz |
a great amount of consumable liquid |
| spiza |
twig, shoot, branch, stick |
| spizar |
itch |
| stagnaco |
bucket, pail |
| strafanic |
scruffy person, a loser, a ne'er-do-well |
| straza |
rag |
| tacomaco |
band-aid |
| traiber |
muddler |
| trombini |
rubber boots, like those used to hike up the Carso |
| tubili |
a guy who's stupid and not a little vain |
| vapor |
steam |
| venderigola |
a female vendor, particularly one who works in the Piazza Ponterosso |
| zigar |
to yell |
| zima |
the end |
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