A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire Part 16

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_)