coccare

See also: cucca and Cucca

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

corcare
coccà, cuccà, corcà, curcà (alt. spellings)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin collocāre.

Pronunciation

(Naples) IPA^(key): [kukˈka]

Verb

coccare

(transitive) to lay down
(intransitive and reflexive) to lie down, go to bed
- 1976, La Gatta Cenerentola, Second Act:
  Matrigna: Pripara lu lietto e fallo cuccà c''o 'mbamberambì e 'o 'mbamberambà!
  Cenerentola: Oi mamma s'è cuccato!
  Coro: Bim bom bà!
  Stepmother: Make the bed and make him lie down with the [jibberish]!
  Cindrella: Hey mother, he lay down!
  Chorus: Bim bom bà!

References

AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 659: “è coricato; coricarsi” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “coccare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano

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