| Padding (for cudgel-play) | n | Gaffle |
| Paddle | v | Dabble |
| Paddle (used by schoolteachers for corporal punishment) | n | Custis |
| Paddock | n | Foddering-ground, Parrock, Snicky |
| Pain, sharp | n | Smirt |
| Paint | v | Stain |
| Painted | adj | Tipped |
| Pair (of geese) | n | Lag |
| Pale-faced | adj | Creamy-faced |
| Pall-bearer | b | Bearer |
| Palm Sunday | n | Flowering Sunday |
| Palpitate | v | Quop |
| Palpitation | n | Frimitt, Population |
| Paltry | adj | Sooterly |
| Pamper | v | Cocker, Mum |
| Pampered | adj | Forweend |
| Pan, broken | n | Rage |
| Pan, earthenware | n | Jowl |
| Pan, iron | n | Prene |
| Pan, kind of | n | Kerch |
| Pancake | n | Flap-Jack, Flawn |
| Pancake, thick | n | Froise |
| Pancreas (of animal, cooked) | n | Mood |
| Panic | n | Fray |
| Pannier | n | Dorsel, Dosser, Panger, Ped |
| Pansy | n | Biddy’s Eyes, Nuffinidol |
| Pant | v | Lill, Pawk |
| Pant (of dog) | v | Whimper |
| Pantry | n | Buttery, Pantony |
| Paper, made of | adj | Papern |
| Paralytic | adj | Lattiprack |
| Paralyze | v | Scram (2) |
| Parched | adj | Mickled |
| Pare turf | v | Fell, Flay, Skirt, Skirwink, Well |
| Pare turf for burning | v | Beat |
| Parings | n | Picking |
| Paris (herb) | n | True-Love |
| Parish pound | n | Pad-Land |
| Parsley-leaved Elder | n | Feathered Elder |
| Parsnip | n | Pane, Pasmet |
| Part | n | Snite |
| Part of a plough to which the share is fastened | n | Chip |
| Part of gate that is attached to the post | n | Harrow |
| Part of the tackling of a plough | n | Clutters |
| Partial | adj | Scalding |
| Partially sighted | adj | Pearl-blind, Parly, Sand-Blind |
| Particle | n | Scriddick, Scuddick, Scurrick, Scuttick, Skerrick, Skiddick |
| Particular | adj | Tickler |
| Particularly | adv | Particular |
| Partition | v | Batten |
| Partition in calamine oven | n | Hem |
| Partition in cottage | n | Hallan |
| Partition, boarded | n | Daving |
| Partition, wooden | n | Spewring |
| Partly | adv | Partways |
| Partner in a mine | n | Vern |
| Party | n | Rum-Tum |
| Party, Christmas | n | Ramracketting |
| Partying | v | Floistering |
| Passable | adj | Fairish |
| Passionate | adj | Fogey |
| Past | ppl | By-Past |
| Past her prime (of woman) | adj | Married |
| Past, in the | adv | Back-Along |
| Pastry | n | Flour-vittals |
| Pastry-cutter | n | Jigger |
| Pasture | n | Barth, Lease, Leers, Lish, Slait |
| Pasture by riverside | n | Ham |
| Pasture feeding | n | Agistment |
| Pasture horses | v | Bait |
| Pasture sheep on downs | v | Slay |
| Pasture, steep | n | Lithe |
| Pasture-fed animal | n | Agister |
| Patch up | v | Peggle |
| Paterfamilias | n | Goodman |
| Path | n | Pad |
| Path across marsh | n | Lode |
| Path cut through woodland for woodcocks to fly through | n | Cock-Shut |
| Pathway up a steep hill | n | Borstal |
| Patient | adj | Patientable |
| Patronal feast of church | n | Feast, Rail, Revel |
| Pave | v | Peech |
| Paving-stone | n | Paver |
| Pay mining duty | v | Gavel |
| Pay rise | n | Risement |
| Payment | n | Scute |
| Payment made to the Mayor of Oxford | n | Mileway Money |
| Pea pod | n | Huddick |
| Peach-leaved bellflower | n | Peach-Bell |
| Peak | n | Teap |
| Peak (hill) | n | Pen |
| Peak (of cap etc) | n | Snook |
| Peaked | adj | Picked |
| Peal | v | Clam |
| Pea-pod | n | Peascod |
| Peas | n | Zids |
| Peas and beans growing together, crop of | n | Peasipouse, Pollards. Poults, Pulse |
| Peas and beans mixed | n | Frouse |
| Peasant | n | Chopstick |
| Pea-stick | n | Stricker |
| Pea-straw | n | Pease-Haulm |
| Peat | n | Fog-Earth |
| Peat bog | n | Fen |
| Peat, dried | n | Fag |
| Peat-cake | n | Clum |
| Peat-earth | n | Clob |
| Peat-rake | n | Clum |
| Pebble | n | Popple |
| Peck | v | Jowl |
| Pedlar | n | Haggler |
| Peel | v | Pill |
| Peel (of apple) | n | Peeling |
| Peel bark | v | Rain |
| Peep show | n | Pin-A-Sight, Poppy-Show |
| Peevish | adj | Uppish |
| Peg | n | Barb, Knag, Maig |
| Pegging-tops (game) | n | Gloss |
| Pelt | v | Dub |
| Pelt with stones | v | Squail |
| Pen (for livestock) | n | Crewe, Pennet, Penning, Pine |
| Pendulum | n | Pendilo |
| Penis | n | Nippy |
| Penis of stag | n | Linch-Pin |
| Penknife | n | Jackalegs |
| Pennyroyal | n | Organ |
| Penny-whistle | n | Flout |
| Perch (fish) | n | Base |
| Perch (for birds) | n | Perk |
| Peregine Falcon | n | Trammel-Hawk |
| Perennial rye-grass | n | Aye-No-Bent |
| Perhaps | adv | Belike, Mayhap |
| Period of time | n | Stem |
| Periwinkle (flower) | n | Prinkle, Wrinkle |
| Periwinkle (mollusc) | n | Kinkling, Pennywinkle. Willok |
| Perpendicular | adj | Plim, Plum, Stair |
| Perry pear | n | Huff-Cap |
| Person or animal born in March | n | March-bird |
| Person, cheerful | n | Grig |
| Perspiration | n | Preservation |
| Perspiration, excessive | n | Lantern-sweat |
| Persuade | v | Suade |
| Peruse | v | Punyear |
| Perverse | adj | Thirtingill |
| Petticoat | n | Pancrock |
| Petticoat, gored | n | Gore-coat |
| Petticoat, outer | n | Safeguard |
| Petunia | n | Peculiar |
| Pharmacist | n | Druggister |
| Pheasant | n | Peacock |
| Phleghm | n | Flame, Riddle |
| Phlox | n | Flock |
| Piable | adj | Weath |
| Pick out | v | Lease |
| Pick out with pointed instrument | v | Huck |
| Pickaxe | n | Physgy, Pickex |
| Picky | adj | Tarty |
| Picrotoxin | n | Cock-Anterbury Seed |
| Picture | n | Spicter |
| Pie made from suckling-pigs | n | Piggy-Pie |
| Pie made with apples, onions and mutton or bacon | n | Squab-Pie, Squat-Pie |
| Piebald | adj | Pie Picked |
| Piece of leather attached to draught-horse's collar | n | Housing |
| Piece of tape used to strengthen hem of garment | n | Bobbin |
| Piece of wood with hurdles for the soles of a hurdle | n | Bliake |
| Piece, large | n | Ummit |
| Piecemeal | adv | Limb-Meal, Randing |
| Pieces | n | Jouds |
| Pieces of metal on collar of draught-horse | n | Heyam |
| Pieces of wood let into a wall to support a pipe | n | Druck-Pieces |
| Piece-work | n | Tuck-Work, Tut |
| Pied Wagtail | n | Dippity-Washty, Scullery-Maid |
| Pierce | v | Bagnet |
| Pig | n | Mallock |
| Pig fat | n | Flare, Fleed. Flick, Leaf |
| Pig fat from which lard has been extracted | n | Gruels |
| Pig, child's name for | n | Choogey |
| Pig, fattened | n | Porker, Porket |
| Pig, hand-reared | n | Graff |
| Pig, young | n | Rookler |
| Pig-fat | n | Midgen, Midgerum |
| Piggy-back | v | Pisty-Poll |
| Piglet | n | Elt, Ilt |
| Pig's cheek | n | Choppekin, Chopper, Codgel |
| Pig's head soup | n | Crowdy |
| Pig-sty | n | Lewze |
| Pigsty, outdoor portion of | n | Outlet |
| Pigswill | n | Crammons |
| Piked Dogfish | n | Pickadog |
| Pilchard | n | Spilchard |
| Pilchard-net | n | Sean |
| Pile of sheaves | n | Shock |
| Pile on | v | Pail |
| Pile up | v | Law, Slummock |
| Pile up (of barley) | v | Love, Low |
| Pilfer | v | Slocket |
| Pilfer | v | Slocks |
| Pilfer wool | v | Slinge |
| Pillow | n | Peel, Pill |
| Pillow-case | n | Pillow, Pillow-Bere |
| Pimpernel | n | Numpinole |
| Pimple | n | Bladder, Pimp, Pinswell, Pip, Pumple, Push, Quat, Quilt. Reef, Squat, Squilt, Tetter |
| Pimply | adj | Ampery |
| Pin in centre of mole-trap | n | Muggle-Pin |
| Pin, thatcher's | n | Pray |
| Pinafore | n | Pin-Cloth, Pun |
| Pincers, pair of | n | Pince |
| Pinch | v | Grig |
| Pinched grains of wheat in the husk | n | Chucks |
| Pincushion | n | Pinkie |
| Pine | v | Hone |
| Pinion | n | Whirra |
| Pink Garden Balsam | adj | Prussian's Caps |
| Pipe, clay | n | Cutty (1) |
| Piss (1) | n | Saag |
| Piss (2) | v | Stale |
| Pit | n | Clam, Dell, Tye |
| Pit for burning charcoal | n | Smother-Pit |
| Pitch (ball etc) | v | Peck |
| Pitcher | n | Gotch, Gullymouth, Piger, Pill |
| Pitcher, stone | n | Helve |
| Pitchfork | n | Evil, Pikel, Sheppeck, Strevill, Tomahawk |
| Piteous | adj | Pitous |
| Pit-saw, handle of | n | Tiller |
| Pity | v | Bepity |
| Pivot of axle | n | Gudgeon |
| Pixie | n | Puck |
| Pixie queen | v | Joan the Wad |
| Pixie, evil | n | Derrick |
| Pixy in the shape of a horse | n | Colt-Pixy |
| Placenta of livestock | n | Cleaning |
| Places | n | Plazen |
| Placket-hole | n | Clacket-Hole |
| Plait hair | v | Bunt (3) |
| Plane wood | v | Sprawl |
| Plank | n | Batten, Planch, Shide |
| Plank cut from middle of tree | n | Flitch |
| Plant | n | Plout |
| Plant potatoes | v | Stoach |
| Plant used in herbaceous borders | n | Edging |
| Plantain | n | Canary |
| Plantation | n | Planting |
| Planted | v | Grited |
| Plaster | v | Parge, Parget |
| Plaster figure | n | Image |
| Plaster, sticking | n | Huddock |
| Plasterer | n | Spreader |
| Plate of wagon | n | Parter |
| Platter | n | Gower |
| Play | v | Maxim |
| Play a musical instrument jerkily | v | Doppet |
| Play skittles | v | Skittle |
| Play sport | v | Lake |
| Play the flute | v | Whit |
| Play the fool | v | Nannick |
| Play truant | v | Log, Minch |
| Playful | adj | Coltree, Playsome, Playward |
| Pleasant | adj | Comfortable, Heartsome, Tow |
| Pleasant | adj | Heartsome |
| Plentiful | adj | Plenty |
| Pliable | adj | Linge |
| Pliant | adj | Swinky |
| Plod | v | Jub |
| Plot (of land) | n | Pane, Pleck, Splat, Splot, Spot |
| Plot of land, small | n | Plack |
| Plough (1) | v | Ear, Rafter, Vare |
| Plough (2) | n | Sull, Zill |
| Plough alternate furrows | v | Reest-baulk |
| Plough bottom furrow | v | Hent |
| Plough lightly | v | Stir |
| Plough pushed with chest | n | Breast-Plough |
| Plough used to make furrows in which potatoes are planted | n | Balking |
| Plough, part of | n | Lawnder |
| Plough-boy | n | Goad-inch |
| Ploughing | n | Earth |
| Ploughshare | n | Mall, Shear |
| Plover | n | Pluvyer |
| Ploy | n | Scitturn |
| Plucky | adj | Plucked |
| Plum, small | n | Casting |
| Plum, variety of | n | Davison, Muscle-Plum |
| Plum, wild | n | Gristling, Kestling |
| Plump | adj | Bousy, Clodgy, Crummy, Floddy, Foggy |
| Plus | adv | Eke |
| Ply | v | Trip |
| Poach | v | Proach |
| Poaching for fish | v | Angle-Berry |
| Pochard | n | Ker |
| Pochard | n | Poker |
| Pock-marked | adj | Pock-vurden |
| Pod (of peas etc) | n | Kid, Slat |
| Podgy | adj | Purgy |
| Point of a stag's horn | n | Crocket |
| Pointed | adj | Pecked, Piked |
| Pointer | n | Feck, Fescue |
| Poison | n | Spyzon |
| Poisoned | adj | Ampered |
| Poke (1) | v | Dake |
| Poke (2) | n | Podge |
| Pole for hanging pots | n | Reddypole |
| Pole in cowshed | n | Saltree |
| Pole on which bundles of corn are carried | n | Speak, Speaker |
| Pole on which hedgers carry faggots | n | Shorry |
| Pole put through the handles of a COUP (qv) | n | Covel-stick |
| Pole to which punt is moored | n | Repeck |
| Pole used by snipe-shooters | n | Poord |
| Pole, long | n | Skelm |
| Pole, rough | n | Shead |
| Polecat | n | Beal, Cane, Fitch, Fitcher, Fitchole, Flout, Stoat |
| Polecat, male | n | Fout |
| Policeman | n | Jigger |
| Polish | v | Glaze |
| Polished | adj | Smolt |
| Pollard | v | Dolard, Dotterel, Polly, Runnell, Stockell, Stoggle |
| Polyanthus | n | Polly-Andrews |
| Pomegranate | n | Pimgenet |
| Pon my soul | int | Pon my Sam |
| Ponce about | v | Fineney |
| Pond | n | Tank |
| Pony | n | Hobby |
| Pony, New Forest | n | Forester |
| Pool | n | Pill |
| Pool in river bed, deep | n | Lum |
| Pool near stable | n | President |
| Pool. deep | n | Plunge |
| Poor-quality | adj | Mecklekeckle |
| Pop (of seed pod) | v | Haffer |
| Poppy | n | Headache, Pope |
| Pork chop | n | Griskin |
| Pork crackling | n | Sward, Scratchlings |
| Pork scratchings | n | Scrattins |
| Porridge | n | Greaty-milk |
| Porridge made with flour | n | Flour-poke |
| Portland stone quarried on the Isle of Purbeck | n | Purbeck-Portland |
| Possessed | adj | Mare-Rode |
| Possession | n | Keep |
| Post | n | Posty, Stang, Stock |
| Post, large | n | Pollard |
| Potato field | n | Hookland |
| Potato left in ground which comes up the next year | n | Rambler, Stag |
| Potato, large | n | Rumty-Tummer |
| Potato, variety of | n | Purple |
| Potato-apple | n | Bomble |
| Potatoes | n | Cheddies |
| Potatoes, mashed | n | Hauchee-Pauchee |
| Pot-Bellied | adj | Pottle-bellied, Tog-Bellied, Tot-Bellied |
| Pot-Belly | n | Pawd. Pod |
| Pot-Hook | n | Cogler, Trammel |
| Pot-hook extenders | n | Twycrooks |
| Pottage of bran and ale | n | Drouson |
| Potter about | v | Banter about |
| Pound | v | Pung |
| Pour | v | Cuff, Eute, Fill, Hale, Heald, Hell, Peal, Yote |
| Pour (drink) | v | Birle, Tun |
| Pouring (of rain) | adj | Wheeling |
| Pout (1) | v | Glout, Mogg, Purt |
| Pout (2) | n | Pooch |
| Powerful | adj | Whither |
| Power-walk | v | Swail |
| Pox | n | Pix |
| Practice agriculture | v | Farmer |
| Practice astrology | v | Rule the Planets |
| Practice law | v | Lawyer |
| Practice medicine without a license | v | Pomster |
| Praise | v | Scrog |
| Prance | v | Prank, Prankle |
| Prance (of horse) | v | Wince |
| Prank | n | Aitredan, Crancum, Whiz-a-Gig |
| Prawn | n | Prankle |
| Pray | v | Bead |
| Preach | v | Documentize |
| Preacher, Methodist | n | Cushion-thumper |
| Precipice | n | Scar |
| Precipitation | n | Pitching |
| Predicament | n | Dickyment |
| Predict | v | Halsen, Noseny |
| Preferment | n | Varment |
| Pregnancy | n | Paddy's Toothache |
| Prepare a speech | v | Rosin |
| Prerequisites | n | Uppings |
| Presently | adv | Anby, Asoon Bamby, Predney |
| Press | v | Pitch |
| Press down grass | v | Woller |
| Pretence | n | Wise |
| Price | v | Prize |
| Prick | v | Dake, Pritch |
| Prickly | adj | Scrag |
| Pride | n | Proudness |
| Prig | n | Duffan |
| Prim | adj | Mim |
| Primitive Methodist | n | Ranter |
| Primp | v | Prink |
| Primrose | n | Pimrose |
| Prison | n | Chink, Lob's Pound |
| Prisoner's Base (game) | n | Vie |
| Prithee | int | Pithee |
| Private | adj | Privileged |
| Privet | n | Brivit, Pivert |
| Procrastinate | v | Draw-Latch, Footer, Nifle |
| Procrastinating | adj | Afternoon |
| Procrastinator | n | Pokum |
| Procumbent pearwort | n | Beads |
| Procure | v | Forage |
| Prod | n | Bodge |
| Prolific | adj | Profligate |
| Promise | v | Pomp |
| Promontary | n | Toot |
| Prong | n | Sprong |
| Prop up | v | Teel |
| Prop, wooden | n | Vamp |
| Proper | adj | Meet |
| Properly | adv | After the Rate |
| Prosper | v | Pern |
| Protrude | v | Blake out, Jetty, Strout |
| Proud person | n | Dight |
| Prove | v | Qualify |
| Proverb | n | Rozzum |
| Proviso, with a | adv | Purvizer |
| Prune | v | Shrig, Tame |
| Pry | v | Privet |
| Pry | v | Speer |
| Public | adj | Gazey |
| Publish banns for third time | v | Out-Ask |
| Puddle | n | Pulk |
| Puff-Ball | n | Puffer, Snuff-Box |
| Puffin | n | Squid |
| Puffy | adj | Fuzzy, Plubby |
| Pull | v | Hag, Homble, Pug, Pully-Haul |
| Pull by the ears | v | Sowl |
| Pulley, grooved | n | Worra |
| Pulley, small | n | Wharrow |
| Pulp | n | Mummy |
| Pulses | n | Powse |
| Pumice-stone | n | Pommy-Stone |
| Pummel | v | Pum |
| Pump | n | Plump |
| Pumpkin | n | Squash |
| Punch | v | Fulk, Funch, Pog, Wherrit |
| Punctual | adj | Pumptial |
| Pungent | adj | Rammish |
| Punish | v | Suffer |
| Punt (with foot) | v | Pote |
| Purple Clover | n | Honeysuckle |
| Purple cow-wheat | n | Poverty-weed |
| Purr | v | Purl |
| Purring | prep | Burring |
| Pus | n | Humour |
| Push | v | Ping, Pink, Pirch, Vege |
| Push onesself forward | v | Advance |
| Push up | v | Pumble |
| Push with shoulder | n | Hunch |
| Pustule | n | Amper |
| Pustulent | adj | Attery |
| Put aside | v | Heam |
| Put baby into short clothes for first time | v | Shorten |
| Put finger in mouth (of infants) | v | Rook |
| Put into a barn | v | Barn |
| Put on airs and graces | v | Minnock |
| Put on weight | v | Houst |
| Put out to pasture | v | Tack |
| Put up with | phr | Away with |
| Putlog | n | Padlog |
| Putty | n | Boman-Teg |
| Puzzle | n | Puzzlement |
| Pyramidal Bellflower | n | Steeple-Bells |
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