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 |