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P

padlock or padluck

[PAD-luck or PAD-luchk]

a small coalfish

Fishing

paikin or paykeen

[PAY-kin or PY-keen]

a slapping

Word

pair

[PAYr]

related objects, a set of (not limited to two) e.g pair of beads

Word

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pandie or pandy

[PAHn-dee or pan-dee]

stroke (of the belt or tawse across the palm or leg as a punishment)

Threat

pevish

[PEE-vush]

mean

Word

plookin or plooking

[plOOkin, plOOken]

beating

Threat

pollt: ah polled thee? or ah pollt thee?

[pOHlt: ah pOHldt thee or ah pOHlt thee?]

cut: who cut your hair?

Phrase

poper

[pOH-per]

a boy who lit the school fire and swept out the old parish school in return for payment of his fees

Word / Community

preen

[preen]

to pin

Verb

pushin: pyock o pushin

[pooshin: py-ock o pooshin (sometimes pee-yock o pooshin, not recorded)]

poison: a bad tempered person (literally, a bag of poison)

Word

partan or parton

[PAR-tun or PAR-ten]

a small, green crab

Word / Nature

plashach or plashack

[plAHSH-uchk or plAHSH-ak]

plaice or flounder, a (fish)

Word / Fishing

plucks

[plUHx]

herrings, broken

Word / Fishing

pooen

[pOOin]

net shot, first, a

Word / Fishing

potie, potye, potyie

[pOH-tee, pohTCH-ee, pohTCH-yee]

pig, farmyard animal, a

Word / Farming

pucklie

[PUK-ah-lee]

a small amount

Word

pyalach

[pyAH-lach]

pale, sickly looking

Word

peevick

[PEE-vuck]

lapwing or peewit, a (bird)

Word / Nature

platuck or playtack

[plAHtuck or plAYtack]

a straw mat or mattress for fishing lines

Word / Fishing

poll

[pOHl]

to cut (hair)

Verb

poozhant

[POO-zint]

poisoned

Word

potye: e rose from his mate lik a potye

[pohTCH-yee: ee rohs from es mayt lyk ah pohTCHyee]

he got up from his meal like a pig

Phrase

purty

[PUR-tee]

pretty

Word

pyock

[PEE-yahck]

pouch (or poke), a

Word