Piva* (f)
(with) definite article: laNEITHER a bagpipe term, NOR related to any of the other instruments treated in this survey
NOT a bagpipe, but a vernacular term in Pavese dialect for "goiter/goitre" (an enlarged thyroid gland, often visible as a swelling in the lower part of the throat of the neck); Definition oddly and rather injudiciously quoted by Gioielli from Carlo Gambini, »Vocabolario Pavese-Italiano con [Parte seconda] una serie di vocaboli italiani-pavesi che molto tra loro diversificano« (Milano/Pavia, 1879).
Utriculus 3;2 (10), aprile-giugno 1994, Miscellanea zampognara, p.13: “Dire piva per dire gozzo” (»Gambini, p.168).
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