A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire - LightNovelsOnl.com
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Pen _s._ a spigot
Pick, Peckis _s._ pick-axe
Pick, Peek _s._ hay-fork
Pigs _s._ pixies, fairies, as in the common saying, "Please G.o.d and the pigs"
Pig's-hales _s._ hawes
Pig's-looze _s._ pig's-sty
Pilch, Pilcher _s._ a baby's woollen clout
Pill _s._ a pool in a river
Pill-coal _s._ peat from a great depth
Pillow-tie, Pillow-beer _s._ pillow-case
Pilm, Pillum _s._ dust
Pin, Pin-bone _s._ the hip
Pind, Pindy _adj._ fusty, as corn or flour
Pin'd _adj._ applied to a saw which has lost its pliancy
Pine, Pwine, Pwining-end, and Pwointing-end _s._ the gable-end of a house
Pinions _s. p._ the refuse wool after combing (Fr. _peigner_)
Pink-twink _s._ chaffinch
Pinswheal, Pinswil, Pensil _s._ a boil with a black head
Pirl, Pirdle _v._ to spin as a top
Pix, Pex, or Pixy _v._ to pick up fruit, as apples or walnuts, after the main crop is taken in
Pixy _s._ a fairy Pixy-stool _s._ toad-stool
Planch _s._ Planchant _adj._ a wood floor (Fr. _planche_)
Plazen _s. pl._ places
Plim, Plum _v.n._ to swell, to increase in bulk, as soaked peas or rice
Plough _s._ a team of horses; also a waggon and horses, or a waggon and oxen
Plough-path _s._ bridle-path
Plud _s._ the swamp surface of a wet ploughed field
Pock-fretten, Pock-fredden _adj._ marked with small-pox
Pog _v._ to push, to thrust with a fist
Pomice, Pummice, Pummy, or Pumy-Squat _s._ apples pounded for making cider (Fr. _pomme_)
Pomple _adj._ responsible, trustworthy
Pompster, or Pounster _v._ to tamper with a wound, or disease, without knowledge or skill in medicine
Ponted _adj._ bruised, particularly applied to fruit, as a ponted apple
Pooch _v._ to pout
Pook _s._ the stomach, a vell
Pook _s._ a c.o.c.k of hay
Popple _s._ a pebble
Porr _v._ to stuff or cram with food
Pot-waller _s._ one whose right to vote for a member of Parliament is based on his having a fire-place whereon to boil his own pot, as at Taunton
Pound-house _s._ house for cider-making
Prey _v._ to drive the cattle into one herd in a moor, which is done twice a year (_i.e._, at Lady-day and at Michaelmas), with a view to ascertain whether any person has put stock there without a right to do it
Proud-tailor _s._ gold-finch
Pulk, or Pulker _s._ a small pool of water
Pumple, or Pumple-foot _s._ club-foot
Pur, or Pur-hog _s._ a one-year-old male sheep
Purt _v._ to pout, to be sullen
Puskey _adj._ short-breathed, wheezing
Putt _s._ a manure cart with two or three broad wheels
Puxy _s._ a slough, a muddy place
Pyer _s._ a hand-rail across a wooden bridge (Fr. _s'apuyer_)
