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 44 WEST CORNWALL GLOSSART. house." ^ ** In this thing, and podging in that." Podgy, short and stout *'A podgy majiu* Poldavj, coarse, hempen cloath. FoUet, PoUeok, a stick, crooked or knobbed at one end. W. F. P. Pol-yn, a stick, B. Y. PolmmptioilB, adj. restive; ob- streperous. Poltate, Tatie, a potatoe. Pomster, v. to cure a sick person by quackery. * * For there's doc- tors as ponUtera all sorts of dis- eases.** — Unde Jan Trenoodle, Poooh-month, a protruding mouth. Pooohy, V, to make mouths. Pook, hay-cock. Poor, bad. " It's gone poor** — turned sour (as beer). Poor-money, bad money. Poor-tempered, ill-tempered. Poot, a push with the feet. Poot, 17. to push. " To be pooted and flopt so, I wesh I was dead." " This young fellow caught him by the nair of his head and gauve him a bit of a shake, and gauve him a poot or two with his foot, but as to kicking him, he didn't." Towednack, T. 0. Pop-dock, Pop-gloye, Poppy, the flower of the fox-glove. Pope, a puffin ; a sea-bird. Popple, Popple-stone, a pebble. Popple-stone payement, a pebble- stone pavement. Popples, poplar trees. Por, a bTistle or fuss. "What a por you're in." Porf, a pool of stagnant water. Portens, a butcher's term; appurtenance. '*Sheepsheadand porieii$*^ Perth, a cove. Portmantle, a portmanteau. ^Did 'ee see or hear tell of sich a thing as 9^porimanUet^* Porvan, a rush-wick for a lamp. Posh, a heaviness on the chest from mucus, occasioning a loose cough. Polwhele. Vow (plural posses), a gate-post. Possed up, p. p. posted up; pushed up; placed up. "With a make-wise feuuse, posted on top of his awn." — Unde Jan Tre~ noodle. Pots, the entrails. Pots, wooden boxes without covers, and with moveable sides, formerlv used to carry dung on horses' backs to the fields. Pot-water, water for common household use: not drinking water. Ponnd, a cider mill; the place where cider is made. Powdered, slightly salted* "A povodered cod." Powers, a great number. " Maade of pasty-board, with powers of beads and looking-glass." — Undt Jan Trenoodle. Prall, V. to tie a tin pan to a dog's tail Preedy, adj. forward ; conceited. " A preedy piece of goods." ** I shall not make myself preedy I* Eedruth, T. 0. Preedy, adv. with ease. "She does it bra' and preedy. ^^ Preyentiye-man, a coastguard. Preyentiye-station, a coastguard station. Prid-prad, a tomtit Priden-prall, a blue-tit Pridy, handsome ; good-looking ;
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