No. GUTIERREZMACIAS1989-001
Extremaduran zumbaera
Spain · Extremadura · Ahigal, Cáceres · Europe · Iberia
Function not recorded
zumbaera
zumbaera: Extremaduran form of zumbadera, 'buzzer', from zumbar, to buzz, with the -d- between vowels dropped, as often in western and southern Spanish speech.
Ahigal's wine, they said in Extremadura, was so good that it left a man's ears like a zumbaera. The zumbaera itself was a thin slip of board with a hole at one end, tied to a cord and swung by the free end until its speed raised a steady buzz. The word and the saying belong to the everyday speech of Upper Extremadura, around Ahigal at the foot of the Sierra de Gata.
Particulars
- Object
- A thin little board with a hole at one end for the cord, swung by the cord's free end.
- Function
- Whirled on its cord until its speed produced a buzz; the sound was proverbial.
Source
Valeriano Gutiérrez Macías, "En torno al léxico extremeño," Revista de Folklore 98 (1989): 47–56, at p. 55, s.v. Zumbaera