Any Italians up in this bi-yooooortch?

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... and if so, do you know what the word "boccalone" refers to (i THINK that it has a double, very possibly derogatory, mening regarding women=fish). it's just that i got this postcard from sardegna with the word on it, and i'd like to know! (the people who sent it don't have a clue, either).

thanks,

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

erm,
http://www.tamabi.ac.jp/gurafu/akiyama/CHARACTER_SYMBOL/IllBoccalone.jpg

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

My wife's family is Italian, and they say something that sounds like "bacala," which is a sort of fish, but can also mean a woman's, well, you know...

― Nemo (JND), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i'll ask my father.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Bocca = mouth
-one = big-

Boccalone strikes again.

(nb. this might not be a correct translation)

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

right. this sounds promising. for your info, the postcard features an overweight lady wearing a bikini whose parts resemble glittering fish heads. confused? me too. but wait for this: the lower bikini fish head has a cigarette in its mouth !?!!??

the text goes: "Sei un BOCCALONE!"

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Madchen, you are in NEW YORK. Get off the internet.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

the fish have big, red lips, by the way. man i wish i could post this, but i don't have a scanner.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

it means "big mouth".

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"Big fish fag twat lips".

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

There are loads of Italians over on I Love Books, so you could try asking there

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I already gave the answer.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

nice one, chris - is that also slang for a big-boned woman or a, um, sizeable vagina or something? or else i don't get what the card is about ...

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Boccalone is a black bass.

― Nemo (JND), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

take "big mouth" with a grain of salt. im sure it has something to do with a loose quim as well.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

the card looks like something from a restaurant...my take would be something to do with eating.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

nono, this is not the card, it was merely an illustration of the existence of the word. MAN, i wish i could post this!

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"Sei un boccalone" would mean "You are a black bass," if I'm not mistaken.

I don't get it, even if we assume the dirty double meaning of fish. Maybe there's a pun a native speaker would recognize?

― Nemo (JND), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

BOCCALONE . (d) Used term in order to indicate a gossipy person, than does not succeed to hold a secret, than it never does not make the transactions its, that it speaks to vanvera, that believes to all, that falls to us like nothing. Varying: BACCALA ', BECCALONE, BECCACINO, PAGANEL.

From an italian dictionary.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

the woman is black, of course. but it still doesn't make quite sense, does it? "you are a black bass/blabbermouth"???

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 22 April 2004 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

It's idomatic like saying raining cats and dogs. Jeez.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

cats == pussy == DIRRTY

― SLeeeter Kinney (Leee), Thursday, 22 April 2004 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Meow

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

There are "loads of Italians" on I Love Books??? Is Umberto Eco posting yet?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 22 April 2004 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Non ancora. Aspettiammo un po.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

not exactly umberto eco, but Italian enough...by the look of it, the postcard seems to refer simply to the last name of the grocery's owner(gastronomia), with no particular second meaning... at most, "boccalone" might signify credolous person. ciao

― annina (strand), Friday, 23 April 2004 09:11 (twenty-two years ago)

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