Meaning

noun a plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime; applied while soft to cover exterior walls or surfaces

verb decorate with stucco work

verb coat with stucco

originBorrowed from Italian stucco (“coating made of pulverised gypsum, plaster, stucco”) from Old Italian stucco, from Lombardic stucki, *stucchi (“crust, fragment, piece”) from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją (“stump, piece”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- (“to shock, butt, impact”). Akin to German Stück (“piece”), Old Saxon stukki (“piece, fragment”) and Old English stycce. Related to stock.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0