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PROPER.—Expresses magnitude.

"A proper lot o' pegs," means a large number of pigs.

"A proper hidin'," means a severe whipping.

"A proper scamp" is a thoroughly bad character.

PUCKER,—In a confused state.

"If 'e maaykes a pucker o' things like this yer agin zomebody else med put 'um to rights vor 'e vor I wunt."

PUCKERED.—Confused; wrinkled.

"Puckered" as regards a dress is the same as "gathered."

PUDDENY.—A child is thus called when its cheeks are very large and project forward. "Pudden-vaayced" is similarly used.

PUDDEN-YEAD.—One having a stolid stupid look.

PUFF BALLS.—Fungi full of light dusty matter.

PUG.—The name by which a ferret is always called when required to come to hand.

PULLED-DOWN.—Reduced in condition by illness or melancholy.

PULLY-HAWLLY.—The word given to men to pull hard and all together.

PULL UP.—To stop.

To summons before a court of law.

"A was pulled up once vor stalin' turmuts."

PUMMEL.—To beat with the fist.

PUR, or PAAIR.—A pair; a pear.

PURLER.—A tumble head over heels; a fall from a horse. "My herse stopped shert at the ditch, an' I went a purler awver his yead."

PUSS.—A purse.

"What a life t'ood be to us,

Wife at whoam an' child to nuss;

Not a penny in the puss

Smart young bach'lers."

PUSSY-CATS.—The bloom of the nut-tree.

PUT.—To find the best market for.

"I allus zells my herses bettern 'n thee acause I knaws wher to put um better.