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Forms: zucca (data provider: donatus-sup)
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Baretti: A dictionary of the English and Italian languages
Zúcc-a, s. f. dim. Zúcc-hétta, Zúcc-hettína, aug. Zúcc-óne,
1. a gourd, pumpkin; 2. (fig.) a marriageable young woman; 3. a water-melon, a melon. — salvatica,briony; 4. a dry, hollow gourd to keep fish or salt in, a gourd-bottle. — lunga,a calabash; 5. (joc.) the noddle, pate, head. Aver poco sale in —, to have no salt in one's head; to be dull, stupid, witless. In —, bareheaded. Stare in —, to be uncovered or bareheaded. — al vento, a vain man.
Florio: a worlde of wordes, or most copious, dictionarie in Italian and English
zucca: any kind of Gourd or Pumpion Vsed also metaphorically for a mans head, sconce, nole pate or scull. Also a scull or a head-piece or steele-cap. Also a kind of wine measure of about a pottle of oures. Also a kind of drinking-glasse. Also a salt-box, a bottle, or a Lanthorne. For in Italy they make such of the dried rindes of Pumpions. Also a casting bottle for sweet water.