It derives its name from the French word Boucherie, with reference to the meat market, but widens over time to be one of the most important and characteristic city markets. Made famous by the painter Renato Guttuso Bagheria in the opera, the term "vucciria" evokes in the local dialect, the confusion, the clamor for "abbannio" of Arabic origin, with which the merchants extol their wares.