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PLAAY-SHERP.—To get an advantage over another by somewhat unfair and ungenerous action.

PLAAY-UP.—Play with vigour.

PLASTERED.—The common expression when clothes are coated with mud.

"Your trowsers be plastered an' I mas' hev am dried avoor am can be brushed."

PLATTER.—A plate or small dish.

"Jack Sprat cood yet no vat.

His wife cood yet no le-an

An' zo betwixt 'um bo-ath

Thaay kep' the platter cle-an."

PLAZE GOD.—Very commonly inserted in a sentence or added to it.

"I hopes, plaze God. as ther 'ool be a better vail o' lambs this year n ther was laast.'"

PLEAZURIN'.—Enjoying one's self, not working.

"If a goes a-pleasurin' about zo much a wunt be aayble to paay his waay much longer.

PLUCK.—Courage.

A part of the offal of a bird or animal.

PLUM.—Level with.

"The plank along this zide yent plum wi' the one on t'other zide."

PLYMMED.—Enlarged, swollen, expanded by damp or wet.

"The leathern strap be got plymmed an' wunt work backerds an vorruds in the buckle no moor."

Seeds are said to have "plymmed" when swollen ready to sprout.

POBBLE.—The noise made hy the bubbling of water when commencing to boil.

POD.—A large stomach.

POKE.—Poke about, to look about inquisitively or with a view to pilfering: thus, if a person bo caught without lawful business in a place where hens would be likely to lay eggs he would be greeted by, "What be at pokin' about yer."

POKEY.—Insignificant, small, out of the way.

"A zed as he'd gi' rauh a good present an' awnly brought muh a pokey little work-baskut."

POLLARD.—The ground husk of wheat; medium size; is so called, the coarsest size being " bran " and the finest being "toppins."