Etymology

scetavajasse

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Today it means: A Neapolitan percussion instrument composed of two wooden sticks, a serrated one and a smooth one, played by rubbing the former on the latter. Full definition →

Neapolitan scetavajasse
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  1. Neapolitan · borrowed fromscetavajasse
  2. English todayscetavajasse

Borrowed from Neapolitan scetavajasse (literally “maid-waker”), from sceta (“wake up”, imperative of scetà) + vajasse (“maids, female servants”, plural of vajassa).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.