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pad    -    to tread hard beneath the feet "We putten some                       gravel alung that road; bur it was a lung wheil afore               it got well padded" 

pad-road   -   a trodden path or stile-road across fields 

pale, palin' irons   -   a barley spike, an implement used to                                     remove the 'pales' of barley 

pane   -     a panel of a timber framed house

papes   -     a sort of gruel made by boiling flour and water                         together 

parkgate,    "Aw on one side like Parkgate" - an expression                       applied to anything lopsided. Parkgate is a village                   on the Dee estuary, where the houses are built on                   one side of the road only, the sea wall being on                       the other side. 

parl    -    an argument

pash    -   a sudden rush of water, a gush, or a sudden rainfall 

patch and dautch   -    to mend clothes 

pather   -   (1)dirty footmarks "Ah had bu'just gotten my bonk                    straight; an' nai ah've a' this mess an' pather to                      clean up" (2) to walk, go 

pathery   -     dirty with footmarks

paunch    -      punch 

pautament   -    a quantity of weeds 

peaswad    -     a pea-pod, a pea-hull 

peckle, pecklet    -    speckle, speckled

peewit land     -      wet lands where lapwings may be

peffil      -    (1)to pick at , to peck (2) to beat generally about                      the head 

peffilin'   -      a beating, a knocking about the head "Yo little                        nowt! I hope yur daddy'll gie yo a regilar good                          pefillin' when yo getten wom" 

peggy    -     a dolly, the wooden instrument used to wash                          clothes in a dolly tub

Peggy behind Margit   -    one behind the other 

Peggy-Whitethroat     -     the whitethroat 

peint    -    point, the top of a hill, the brow 

pelf    -      a fleece of wool

peramble     -   a long rambling statement 

pettitoes    -    a pet name for the feet 

pidie   -      pied finch, chaffinch 

pig-cote    -      a pig-sty

pig in     -     to have rough or untidy sleeping accommodation.                    To lodge as a pig does. 

pig-wood     -     the smaller branches of the oak, when lopped                         off. 

piggintle    -   a piggin full

pikelet   -     a tea crumpet

pillow-beard, pillow-slip    -     a pillow case 

pimple pamples   -     Same as "Billy-go-nimbles" 

pingle   -      a small croft or field

pinglin'     -    narrow; always applied to a field

pinny     -    pinafore 

pipe    -      a branch or side-run in a rabbit warren 

pitch-cord     -    strong cord smeared with pitch and used for                            thatching 

pitch-hole    -     the aperture in a hay loft through which the                            hay or straw is pitched or thrown in.

placket-hole      -     the slit in the skirt of a woman's dress                                   which allows it to be passed over the                                     head (before zips closed them!) 

plague    -    to tease 

plain   -       exposed, not sheltered from the wind 

plantin'    -    a coppice

pleach    -    to spread thickly over "Yo pleachen the butter on                    shameful" 

plim    -    perpendicular 

plunder     -   the noise of articles of furniture falling or being                       moved. 

pobbies   -      bread softened in milk

pocketle    -       a pocketful 

poncake   -       a pancake 

ponder after    -     to hanker after "I can sey he's ponderin'                                 after some wench" 

pon-mug    -     a coarse black and red earthenware mug

poother     -     (1) dust and smoke that stifles "Whey! What a                         poother ye'n gotten here!" (2) to bustle or fidget                       about literally to make a dust 

poppet     -      term of endearment for a child 

a poppy-show      -       a puppet show 

pot-baw     -     (pot ball) a yeast dumpling

pote      -        to push or kick in bed 

power     -         a great quantity "There'll be a power                                       o'damsons this year" "It'll do yo the power of                         good" 

powk     -     (pox) a pimple or small boil 

powsy     -      rubbishy, worthless (poxy?)

pox tak     -      The plague take..... A pox upon....... an insult 

preparing their bobs    -       fir trees swelling their cones in                                               spring

pricker    -       a thorn, prickle 

prog    -      to pilfer "Hey's some nowt; ah dait hey's com'n a-                   proggin'" (of Dutch origin pragchen = to beg)

proke     -     to poke 

provable      -       said of crops - answering the test of time,                              turning out well 

puddins     -      the entrails. Violent criminals are recorded as                         threatening to spill their victims                                             puddins.

puddin'-time    -     in the nick of time. It used to be customary                             to have one's pudding as first course, so                                 this phrase means literally to be in time for                             the first course of dinner. 

pu gorffin     -      literally to pull faces (does anyone know the                           origin of this? Sounds a little Welsh to                                     me)

puff    -       breath, life "Ah never seid sich a thing in aw my                    puff" or "in aw my born puff" 

puffin'       -     blustering, boasting 

puffle     -     to swell

pun     -     a pound (money) 

pungled     -     embarrassed , perplexed 

pungow (-ing)    -     bothering, wearisome - "I've had a                                           pungowing week with all the huzzbuzz                                     that's been going on."

purled     -     emaciated by sickness and over work

push-ploo     -     a hand-driven plough with a single long                                   handle 

put abait     -     irritated, distressed 

put-on      -    a fabrication, a deception "I wunna believe that;                     it sainds too much like a put-on" 

puttered      -      decayed, rotten (from the Welsh pwdr =                                   rotten) - I wonder if putrid is linked to this?

puzz-baw      -     a fuzz-ball, or spongy fungus