Today’s Parola del giorno is the noun il catòrcio, which means old wreck.
Note the placement of the stress on the first “o” and not the penultimate vowel!
It can be used figuratively to describe people who are “falling to pieces/apart” or in a more literal way to describe something old and broken down, like an abandoned car or decrepit scooter.
See the noun used below:
Ogni mattina il mio collega di lavoro Marcello si lamenta di qualche dolore: la schiena, le orecchie, la testa, gli occhi… non smette mai di frignare per un problema di salute! Scherziamo dicendo che è un catorcio.
Every morning my work colleague Marcello complains of some pain: his back, his ears, his head, his eyes…he never stops whining about some health problem. We joke saying that he is an old wreck.
