Lancashire Dialect Glossary P
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Pad – to walk (SB)
Paddin – journeying on foot: also the taking home of work by hatters is called paddin, from pad, to walk (SB)
Pail or Pale – to beat: "Awv pailt him weel." (SB)
Pan – to make fit ‘It’s just panned eawt.’
Pan – to piece, to join together (now seldom used) (SB)
Pap – the female bosom, suck for an infant (SB)
Papper – paper ‘Deet thee no papper’
Papper – paper; Pappert – papered; Papperin – papering (SB)
Pappertn – they papered (SB)
Pappy – full bosomed, full of milk (SB)
Park – the, a place at Middleton; Little Park, in the township of Tonge (SB)
Parrish – perish, to starve with cold; Parrisht, perished, benumbed (SB)
Pash – a gush, a sudden outbreak: "Hoo pasht into teers." (SB)
Pawm – palm; flower of willow or hazle; also the palm of the hand. "Hee put it i'th pawm ov his hont." (SB)
Paxwax – a tough white tendon in meat
Pays-egg, or Peace-egg – an egg, or other gift presented at Easter, according to an ancient custom (SB)
Pearlur – parlour, a room (SB)
Peawchin’, peauchin – crying ‘What arto peawchin for?’ [Also overflowing
‘a full peauchin mub o’ whoam-brewed’]
Peawnd – pound ‘He rambles abeawt through boroughs an’ teawns,
A sellin’ folk up as boh ow’n a few a few peawnds’
Peawer – power (SB)
Peawnd – a pound (SB)
Peawnther or Peawnder – keeper of a pound for cattle (SB)
Peawr – power, abundance ‘He’s getten a peawer o’ brass’
Peawsweawse and Paxwax – the tendon in a neck of veal (SB)
Peawther – powder: "Thur bullits an peawther, Bang'd leawther an leawther." (SB)
Peckle – to spot,to freckle (SB)
Peeklt – spotted; Pecklin – spotting; Peckltn – they spotted (SB)
Peigh – pea
Peighswad – pea pod
Penkle – to trifle; to waste time on things of small consequence; Penklin, trifling; Penklt – trifled; Penkln, they trifle. (SB)
Pestil – the shank of a ham (SB)
Petch – to patch (SB)
Petchin – patching (SB)
Petcht – patched (SB)
Petchn – they patch (SB)
Petch-wark – patched work (SB)
Peyl – wear out, nose, disturb
Peyl, poal – to strike, to beat ‘Aw poal him i’ th’ yed’
Peylin – striking, also moving ‘He’s gone peylin deawn th’ road’
Peylin or palin – beating (SB)
Peyth – a slight, tickling cough
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Pick – push ‘Hoo pick’d him o’ th’ hillock’
Pick – to push sharply, to throw: also to vomit (SB)
Pickin – vomiting (SB)
Pickin-stick – the wooden handle by which weavers throw their shuttles (SB)
Pickle – condition; in a bad state ‘In a bonny pickle’
Piece-woo – wool for a piece of flannel (SB)
Pike – to go away ‘He’s just piked off’
Pike – to pick, to choose, to select: also to pick a quarrel (SB)
Pikein – picking (SB)
Pikel – a long hayfork
Pikn – they pike: also a pike, a weapon; and a fish (SB)
Pikt – picked, selected (SB)
Pil – to peel; Pillin or Pill-in – peeling; Pill'd – peeled; Pilldn – they peeled (SB)
Pill, pillin’ – peel, peeling ‘Aw mend mi stockins, pill th’ potates’
Pilther or Pilder – to wither, to shrivel, to chip off; Pilthert, withered (SB)
Pilpit – pulpit (SB)
Pimeper – to pamper, to be delicate at food: "Whot arto pimeperin at theer." (SB)
Pincers – a tool for extracting nails
Pindert – thin, wizened
Pingot – a small croft near the house (SB)
Pinn – to run in great haste. "He pinn'd away." (SB)
Pinot – the magpie
Pissmote – a pissmire, an ant (SB)
Plague – tease ‘Let’s goo an’ plague ‘em a bit’
Platt – to plait; Platted – plaited; Plattin – plaiting; Plattn – they plait (SB)
Plattin – a road made on hurdles and bushes across a hollow, or over a boggy place: "Th' Miles Plattin," near Manchester. (SB)
Platter – a wooden dish (SB)
Pleawm – a plum; Pleawm-tree – a plum-tree (SB)
Play me – ‘Mi day’s work is done, aw con play me to-neet’
Pleck – place ‘For aw’ve bin to a pleck so famed for reneawn’
Plucher – to steal, to plunder secretly (SB)
Plucherin – plundering (SB)
Pluchertn – they plundered (SB)
Pluck – courage
Plucks – the lungs called also the "leets." (SB)
Plumpt— sat down suddenly
Plutcherin – pilfering, stealing
Plyes – to please (SB)
Plyesin – pleasing (SB)
Plyesn – they please (SB)
Plyest – pleased (SB)
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Poand – a pond (SB)
Poant – pawned (SB)
Poantn – they pawned (SB)
Poat, pote – to thrust with the feet
Pobbies – a basin of bread and hot milk ‘We’re short o’ pobbies for eawr Joe’
Pod – to pad, to walk (SB)
Poddin – walking (SB)
Poesy – a bunch of flowers (SB)
Poke – a sack also to pry, to obtrude, "Whot arto poking abeawt beer for?" (SB)
Pollyante – polyanthus (SB)
Pon – pan ‘There’s cups an’ saucers; porritch pons’
Pone – or Poan, to pawn (SB)
Ponmark – a dirty mark round the neck
Ponn – a pan; Poncake, a pancake (SB)
Poo – a pool of water (SB)
Poo, poo’d, poo’in’ – pull, pulled, pulling ‘An neaw it’s hard work pooin’ through’
Poo'd, pood – pulled
Poogh – an expression of slight (SB)
Pooin – pulling; Poodn, they pulled (SB)
Poot – a young fowl; Moor-poot, a moor-fowl (SB)
Pop – take to pawn ‘Puttin’ th’ husband’s cloos i’ pop’
Pop, to pop in – to go in
Porritch – porridge (SB)
Posnit – large iron pan set on feet
Poss – purse ‘Avarice poss hed bin unteed’
Poss – to thrust, to push violently (SB)
Possin – thrusting violently (SB)
Post – thrust (SB)
Postn – they thrust (SB)
Possitin’ – gently slavering
Potboe – a dumpling (SB)
Pote – to keep pushing the feet out; to push with the feet, to thrust (SB)
Pot-hook – a hook in the chimney, to hang the pot on (SB)
Potter – fuss about; to stir up, to vex (SB)
Potter – poker ‘a fire potter’
Potterin – vexing (SB)
Pottern – they vex (SB)
Pottert – disturbed, vexed, chagrin’d, worried, upset
Pottertn – they vexed (SB)
Poucement, powsement – bad, naught ‘The plaguey young poucement!’
Poverty knocker – a handloom weaver
Powfagged – harassed, tired
Pow, powl – to cut hair ‘An’ then at th’ week-end, when he’s time,
he pows a bit an’ shaves
Pow – a pole ‘Failsworth Pow’
Pow-cat – a pole cat (SB)
Powd – polled, the hair cut (SB)
Powdn – they cut the hair (SB)
Powfagged – a ragged, dirty, slovely person
Powin – cutting the hair (SB)
Powl – to leave off work, and go to the alehouse (SB))
Powler’t – run about, knocked about
Powlin, neglecting work, and drinking (SB)
Powler – to ramble about drinking (SB)
Powlerin – rambling and neglecting work (SB)
Powlert – broken down, distressed (SB)
Powse – lumber, offal (SB)
Powsement – rubbish, a term of reproach (SB)
Powsedurt – the same (SB)
Prate, prato – potato
Pratty – pretty ‘Tha’rt th’ prattiest brid we have i’ th’ nest’
Prayo – pray you (SB)
Preem – a comb used by weavers, to loosen the yarn (SB)
Prial or Pryal – the number three: "A pryal o' pieces," three pieces. Three persons are a prial (SB)
Prick-mete – just right, tight fitting
Prison-bars – a rustic, out of door game (SB)
Prog – to thrust with a staff or fist (SB)
Prompted – dressed, got ready ‘Hoo prompted hur neatly’
Prowt – trumpery stuff (SB)
Provon – provender (SB)
Prout – a word of reproof to a setter dog when making a false set at a non-game bird
Provven – provender
Provven pricked – one who refuses good food, wants better
Pruin – a prune, a dried plum (SB)
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Pule – to cry, to whimper (SB)
Pulin – whimpering (SB)
Pump, pumpin’ – asking questions; to pry by asking questions: "He geet nowt by his pumpin." (SB)
Pumpin – questioning (SB)
Pumpt, questioned (SB)
Pumpn – they question (SB)
Pumpnt – they questioned (SB)
Pump'o – to question you (SB)
Punce, puns’t, punst, purr’d – to kick, preferably with clogs, punched
‘Puncin’ th’ cat for bein’ hungry’
Punse – to kick; Punst, kicked; Punsin, kicking; Punsn, they kick (SB)
Punsnt – they kicked (SB)
Pwork – pork (SB)
Pyek – peak of a bonnet or cap; Pyekt, peaked (SB)
Pyel, a peal of bells: also a peal of laughter (SB)
Pyelt – pealed (SB)
Pyelin – pealing (SB)
Pyeln – they peal (SB)
Pyeltn – they pealed (SB)
Pynots or Pynorts – magpies (SB)
Pyrch – to perch, also a fish; Pyrchin, perching (SB)
Pyrchn – they perch (SB)
Pyrchnt – they perched (SB)
Pyrk – to be supercilious (SB)
Pyrkin – affecting superiority; Pyrkt, affected (SB)
Pyrkn – they pyrk (SB)
Pyert – cheerful, lively (SB)
Pyess – peace (SB)