Glossary : P
Pack an' thick: confidential
Paidle: to paddle: to wade; to walk with
a weak action
Paidle: nail-bag
Painch: the paunch
Paitrick: a partridge; used equivocally of a wanton
girl
Pang: to cram
Parishen: the parish
Parritch: porridge
Parritch-pats: porridge-pots
Pat: pot
Pat: put
Pattle: pettle: a plow-staff
Paughty: haughty
Paukie: pauky: pawkie: artful:
sly
Pechan: the stomach
Pechin: panting: blowing
Penny-fee: wage in money
Penny-wheep: small beer
Pettle: v pattle
Philibeg: the Highlander's kilt
Phraisin: flattering: wheedling
Phrase: to flatter: to wheedle
Pickle: a few: a little
Pint (Scots): three imperial pints
Pit: put
Placads: proclamations
Plack: four pennies (Scots)
Plackless: penniless
Plaiden: coarse woolen cloth
Plaister: plaster
Plenish'd: stocked
Pleugh: plew: a plow
Pliskie: a trick
Pliver: a plover
Pock: a poke: a bag: a wallet
Poind: to seize: to distrain:
to impound
Poortith: poverty
Pou: to pull
Pouch: pocket
Pouk: to poke
Poupit: pulpit
Pouse: a push
Poussie: a hare (also a cat)
Pouther: powther: powder
Pouts: chicks
Pow: the poll: the head
Pownie: a pony
Pow't: pulled
Pree'd: pried (proved): tasted
Preen: a pin
Prent: print
Prie: to taste
Prief: proof
Priggin: haggling
Primsie: dim of prim: precise
Proveses: provosts
Pu': to pull
Puddock-stools: toadstools: mushrooms
Puir: poor
Pun': pund: pound
Pursie: dim of purse
Pussie: a hare
Pyet: a magpie
Pyke: to pick
Pyles: grains
