sfracassare
Neapolitan
Alternative forms
- sfracassà (alt. spelling)
Etymology
From s- + fracassare.
Verb
sfracassare
- to smash, shatter
- 1635, Pentamerone IV.5,[1]
- no dragone, che […] co la coda sfracassa (a dragon, which […] smashes with its tail)
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- 1635, Pentamerone IV.5,[1]
References
- Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “sfracassare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano[2]