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 WEST CORNWALL GLOSSARY. 48 Pi^jaok, a poor, mean fellow. Piliack, Davy, 25eimor. Pill, a pool ; a creek. Pimpy, the after cider, made "by throwing water on the almost exhausted mass of alternate apple and straw (beyerage). Pin, the hip. Pin-bone, the hip-bone. Pindy, moaldy. J. W. Pinnicky the wryneck. Pinnikin, weakly ; puny. Piran-day, the fifth of March; a tinner's holyday. St. Piran is tiie patron saint of tinners, popularly supposed to have died drunk; the proverb says, "As drunk as a Piraner." Pisky, Pixie, a fairy. " Laugh- ing like a jnaky.*' "See-saw, Margery Daw, sold her bed and lay upon straw. Sold her bed and lay on hay, Pisky came and took her away." Pisky-led, one who has lost his way, and is supposed to be be- witched. The remedy is to sit down and turn your stockings. Piiky-stool, a mushroom. Pitch, the working of a piece of a mine, sold by public auction to two or four workmen every two months. The whole mine is let out in pitches, "A good pitch " is a good bargain. Pitched, p.p, taking root after transplantog. "The turmats (turnips) are pitched" "Also mdt set after the flower is gone is said to be pitched (the mean- ingin all tiiese cases is $ety* J. W. Pitch-to, V. to set to work. Planchen, a board; a wooden floor. "Thrawed his hat on the planchen, and died kickey rather." " Tendar ! tendar ! stop the iigun, left ma boondle on the planchen " (called out of a rail- way carriage to the guard). Plashet, a moist place where a stream rises ; a quagmire. Plat-footed, Splat-footed, acy. splay-footed. Plethan, v. to braid; to plait. Polwhele. Plofiy, adj. fat; plump. "A ploffy young mabyer" (hen). Plosh, a puddle. Plosher, a half-grown bream. Plongh, a wheel-carriage drawn by oxen. Plnff, fur. Plu^, adj. soft; out of con- dition, applied to feathers, &c, sometimes to a spongy turnip. Plnm, adj. soft; light; stupid; foolish. " This tye (feather-bed j is as plum as *ool (wool)." as plum as boften dough." To &11 plum is to fall soft, as in mud. Plnm, Plim, v. to sweU. " Twill plum in boiling." Plnm-oake, a light cake. Plnm-dongh, well risen dough. Plnmming, yeast, raising dough with yeast. Plump, a pump; a well. v. to pump. Plnmpy, v. to chum. HalliwelL Poam, V. to pummel; to knock with the fist. Poaming, a pummelling. FockB, shoves or pushes. Unde Jan Trenoodle, Poddling, adj. meddling; inter- ifered. * * She goes paddling. ' ' Poiging, part, as adj. poking about. '*Podging about the
 * FiBky'led, often whiskey-led."
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