Dictionary: PN – POJ

• PNEUMONIA RIG
n. a set of tropical clothing …c1925 Royal Navy sl.
 
• PNEUMONIA TRUCK
n. an open lorry (truck) without doors or hood …1940 sl.
 
• PO
int. 1. 1910s Aust. & Brit sl. – go away! Piss Off!
int. 2. 1966 Amer. dial. – used as a call to pigs
n. 1880 sl. – a chamber-pot
 
• POACH
vb. 1. c1890 boxing sl. – to blacken the eyes
vb. 2. c1891 sl. – in horse racing: to gain unfairly or illicitly an advantage, esp. a start in a race
 
• POACHED EGG
n. 1. World War II sl. – the Japanese national flag
n. 2. M20 Aust. sl. – ‘a yellow-coloured “silent cop” placed in the centre of intersections as a guide to traffic’
 
• POACHER
n. a broker dealing out of, or frequently changing, his market …c1890 Stock Exchange colloq.
 
• POACHING COUNTRY
n. ‘resort of all who go shooting’ …c1820 Oxford University usage
 
• POAM
vb. to pummel; to knock with the fist …1846 Eng. dial.
 
• POAMING
n. a pummelling …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
• POBBIES
n. 1848 Eng. dial. – pieces of bread softened in milk, generally given to young children or the elderly when unwell; any food of a similar consistency
 
• POBBLE
vb. to ride at a leisurely pace …c1950 motorcyclists’ sl.
 
• POB-BOB
n. a state of confusion, a hubbub …1898 Sc.
 
• POBIE
n. 1. 1822 Sc. – a father or foster-father
n. 2. Bk1905 Sc. – a peak or high hill
 
• PO-BOY
n. 1960 Amer. dial. – a submarine sandwich
 
• POCATELLO YARDMASTER
n. 1. 1940 Amer. dial. – on the railroad: an itinerant worker
n. 2. 1947 Amer. dial. – a fraud; a blowhard, a boastful or pompous person
 
• POCHLIN
adj. awkward, inefficient, bungling …1949 Sc.
 
• POCHUCK
n. a small, out-of-the-way, or unimportant place …1968 Amer. dial.
 
• POCHUCKER
n. an insignificant person; a low-grade person …1968 Amer. dial.
 
• THE POCK
n. 1. a1325 – smallpox
n. 2. 1542 – syphilis
 
• POCKES
n. E16 – syphilis; occasionally for smallpox
vb. 17C Brit. – to infect someone with syphilis
 
• POCKET
n. 1. 1806 Amer. dial. – a small bag or sack
n. 2. Bk1903 sl. – money
n. 3. 1946 Amer. dial. – a cove
n. 4. 1967 Amer. dial. – a bayou
 
• POCKETBOOK
n. female genitals …1942 US sl.
 
• POCKET-HUNTER
n. a prospector …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
 
• POCKET PEDDLER
n. a person who carries about bottles of distilled liquor for illicit selling; a smalltime bootlegger …1892 Amer. dial.
 
• POCKET POOL
n. a playing with one’s genitals through a trouser pocket …1940s sl.
 
• POCKET PURSE
n. a coin purse …1966 Amer. dial.
 
• POCKET ROCKET
n. 1. 1980s drug culture sl. – marijuana
n. 2. 1990s UK juvenile sl. – the erect penis
 
• POCKET ROLL
n. a roll of paper money kept in the pocket …1960s African-American sl
 
• POCKET-THUNDER
n. the breaking of wind; a fart …19C sl.
 
• POCKEY
adj. a general term of abuse …16C sl.
 
• POCK-PUD
n. an Englishman …E18 Sc. usage
 
• POCK-PUDDING
n. an Englishman …E18 Sc. usage
 
• POCKY
adj. a general term of abuse …16C sl.
 
• POCOCURANTE
adj. 1815 – caring little, careless, indifferent, nonchalant
n. 1762 – a careless or indifferent person; one who shows little interest or concern; a trifler
 
• POCO PRONTO
adv. at once, quickly, immediately …1907 Amer. dial.
 
• POCULATION
n. drinking of wine or other intoxicating liquor …1837 nonce word
 
• POCULENT
adj. fit for drinking, furnishing drink, drinkable …1626 obs. rare
 
• P.O.D.
adj. extremely intoxicated by a given drug, usually marijuana (Passed OverDose) …1990s African-American & drug culture sl.
 
• POD
n. 1. 1909 Amer. dial. – a paunch, a pot-belly, a large, protuberant belly
n. 2. 1940s US drug culture sl. – marijuana
vb. 1806 Amer. dial. – to bulge, to swell out
 
• POD-AUGER
vb. to live along aimlessly without working very hard at anything …1912 Amer. dial.
 
• POD-AUGER DAYS
n. older and simpler days …1863 Amer. dial.
 
• PODDOCK
n. a frog …c1350 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
 
• PODDUCK
n. a frog, a toad …1641 Sc.
 
• PODDY
adj. 1. 1844 colloq. – corpulent, obese, stout; round in the belly
adj. 2. B1900 colloq. – drunk
n. 1. 1831 Eng. dial. obs. – a farmer
n. 2. L19 Aust. sl. – a bottle of alcohol
n. 3. B1900 Aust. – a hand-fed calf
n. 4. B1900 Eng. dial. – a child’s shoe
n. 5. 1944 Amer. dial. – an orphan calf or lamb
 
• PODDY CALF
n. half-a-crown, 2s 6d …20C Aust. sl.
 
• PODDY DODGER
n. one who steals unbranded cattle; a cattle rustler …1910s Aust. sl.
 
• PODDYWIG
n. a tadpole …B1900 Eng. dial.
 
• PODGE
n. 1. L19 sl. – excess weight, fat
n. 2. L19 sl. – a short, fat person, esp. a chubby child
n. 3. L19 sl. – a short, stout, thickset animal
vb. 1. Bk1913-17 Amer. dial. – to go slowly
vb. 2. Bk1913-17 Amer. dial. – to prepare
 
• PODGER
n. 1. 1746 Eng. dial. – a pewter dish; also, an earthen platter, ‘porringer’, or ‘pipkin’
n. 2. 1816 rare – ? a stiff blow
n. 3. 1863 Eng. dial. – a fat person
n. 4. L19 Irish sl. – a cudgel
n. 5. B1900 – any of various tools having the form of a short bar
 
• PODGY
adj. short or squat and fat …1846 sl.
 
• PODICATE
vb. to slide or move along on one’s buttocks …1853 nonce word
 
• PODNA;  PODNER
n. a partner, esp. as a term of address …L18 US sl.
 
• PODOCK
n. a small, out-of-the-way, or unimportant place …1971 Amer. dial.
 
• POD OUT
vb. to bulge, to swell out …1949 Amer. dial.
 
• PODSNAPPIAN
adj. 1866 – relating to, or characteristic of Dickens’s Mr. Podsnap; complacent, self-satisfied, blinkered, narrow-minded
 
• PODUNK
n. 1. 1840 Amer. dial. – a nickname for a small, unimportant, remote, or backward place
n. 2. 1916 Amer. dial. – a house or home
n. 3. 1916 Amer. dial. – a person from a small town; a rustic
n. 4. 1969 Amer. dial. – a Polish person
 
• PODUNK CENTRE
n. a nickname for a small, unimportant, remote, or backward place …1901 Amer. dial.
 
• PODUNKER
n. a frog …1857 Amer. dial.
 
• PODUNK HOLLOW
n. a nickname for a small, unimportant, remote, or backward place …1986 Amer. dial.
 
• PODUNKIA
n. a nickname for a small, unimportant, remote, or backward place …1916 Amer. dial.
 
• PODUNK JUNCTION
n. a nickname for a small, unimportant, remote, or backward place …1986 Amer. dial.
 
• PODUNKVILLE
n. a nickname for a small, unimportant, remote, or backward place …1916Amer. dial.
 
• POECILONYM
n. one of various names for the same thing; a different name for the same thing; a synonym …1889
 
• POEM
n. something excellent …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
 
• POENA
n. a school exercise given as punishment …1842 schoolchildren’s usage
 
• POET-SUCKER
n. an immature or inexperienced poet …1614 obs.
 
• PO-FACED
adj. characterized by or assuming an expressionless or impassive face; hence, humourless, disapproving …c1900
 
• POFFLE
n. a small parcel of land …1818 Sc.
 
• POGANATE
vb. to depart hurriedly or quickly …1923 Amer. dial.
 
• POGEY
n. 1. 1960 Amer. sl. – a welfare payment for the needy
n. 2. 1965 Amer. dial. – a jail
vb. 2000 Amer. dial. – to grab onto the rear bumper of a car or bus going down a slippery, snow-covered street, and surf along behind it in a crouching position
 
• POGEY BAIT
n. candy and cakes, etc; sweets; nonmilitary food and delicacies carried on field exercises …1918 WWI & WWII usage
 
• POGGIE BAIT
n. candy and cakes, etc; sweets; nonmilitary food and delicacies carried on field exercises …1918 WWI & WWII usage
 
• POGGLE
adj. 1923 Brit. sl., chiefly services’ usage – insane, mad
n. Bk1892 Anglo-Indian sl., rare or obs. – a crazy or foolish person; an idiot
 
• POGGLED
adj. 1. E20 sl. (orig. military) & Sc. – exhausted; in a state of collapse; completely drunk
adj. 2. 1923 Brit. sl., chiefly services’ usage – insane, mad
 
• POGGY BAIT
n. candy and cakes, etc; sweets; nonmilitary food and delicacies carried on field exercises …1918 WWI & WWII usage
 
• POGIE BAIT
n. candy and cakes, etc; sweets; nonmilitary food and delicacies carried on field exercises …1918 WWI & WWII usage
 
• POGO
n. an ineffectual or incompetent person …1972 Aust. sl.
 
• POGONIP
n. 1. 1869 Amer. dial. – a dense, icy fog
n. 2. 1869 Amer. dial. – a severe snowstorm
 
• POGONOTOMY
n. the cutting or trimming of the beard …1897
 
• POGY
n. a welfare payment for the needy …1960 Amer. sl.
 
• POGY BAIT
n. candy and cakes, etc; sweets; nonmilitary food and delicacies carried on field exercises …1918 WWI & WWII usage
 
• POGUE
n. a bag or purse; a wallet …1812 criminals’ sl.
 
• POHAKU
adj. 1938 Hawaii – hard-hearted
n. 1. 1938 Hawaii – a stone, a rock
n. 2. 1938 Hawaii – one dollar
 
• POHO
adj. 1972 Hawaii – out of luck
int. 1938 Hawaii – hang it! darn the luck!
vb. 1938 Hawaii – to lose, to suffer loss or damage
 
• POH-POH
n. 1. 1980s US prison sl. – a prison officer
n. 2. 1980s African-American sl. – the police
 
• POI DOG
n. 1. 1938 Amer. dial., derogatory– a person of native Hawaiian ancestry
n. 2. 1938 Hawaii – a mutt, a mongrel
 
• POILS
n. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – pearls
 
• POILU 
n. 1914 sl.– a French soldier, esp. in World War I
 
• POINDEXTER
n. 1980s Amer. students’ sl. – an overly studious person
 
• POINT
n. 1. 1832 Amer. dial. – a street corner, often one formed by two streets meeting at a less than a ninety-degree angle; hence, a fork in a road
n. 2. 1925 Amer. prizefighting usage – the jaw
n. 3. 1940s Amer. Armed forces and criminals’ sl. – a forward reconnaissance man; a lookout man; a scout who warns his associates of danger and may get the shock of attack
n. 4. 1960s Amer. drug culture sl. – a hypodermic needle
vb. 1988 Amer. dial. – in fishing: to bait a hook
 
• POINT-BLANK
adj. 1. 1845 Amer. dial. – absolute, unqualified, out-and-out
adj. 2. 2000 Amer. dial. – alike
adv. 1851 Amer. dial. – absolutely, completely, exactly, simply
 
• POINTED HEAD
n. 1. 1940s Amer. sl. – a stupid, dunce-like mind; a brainless cranium
n. 2. 1972 Amer. sl. – an intellectual
 
• POINTEDLY
adv. certainly, thoroughly, absolutely, unquestionably, simply …a1883 Amer. dial.
 
• POINTER
n. 1. 1883 Amer. sl. – an item of advice or instruction
n. 2. 1975 Amer. dial. – the index finger
 
• POINTER-MAN
n. 1987 Amer. dial. – the index finger
 
• POINT-FINGER
n. 1975 Amer. dial.– the index finger
 
• POINTHEAD 
n. 1. 1972 Amer. sl. – a stupid person
n. 2. 1972 Amer. sl. – an intellectual
 
• POINT MAN
n. 1969 – a person who plays a crucial, often hazardous role in the forefront of an enterprise; a person designated to take the lead in a project or task
 
• POINT OF ADMIRATION
n. 1611 – an exclamation mark
 
• POINT PERSON
n. 1969 – a person who plays a crucial, often hazardous role in the forefront of an enterprise; a person designated to take the lead in a project or task
 
• POINT-SHAVING
n. 1971 sports & gambling usage – the illegal practice, esp. on the part of athletes, of controlling the score of a game, match, series, etc., so that professional gamblers will have to pay less to the bettors or will win for themselves
 
• POINT-SPREAD
n. 1973 sports & gambling usage – the difference between the handicapping points added or subtracted for various teams in football and basketball betting
 
• POINT THE FINGER (AT)
vb. 1829 sl. – to accuse or vilify; to identify someone or something as being responsible for wrongdoing
 
• POINTY-HEAD
n. 1. 1972 Amer. sl. – a stupid person
n. 2. 1972 Amer. sl. – an intellectual or expert; used disparagingly
 
• POINTY-HEADED
adj. 1. 1968 Amer. sl. – stupid; idiotic
adj. 2. 1968 Amer. sl. – intellectual; cultured
adj. 3. 1972 US sl., derogatory – knowledgeable, clever
 
• POISON
adj. 1834 Amer. dial. – mean, hateful, vicious; extreme; treacherous
adv. 1840 Amer. dial. – extremely; unpleasantly, viciously
n. 1. 1805 Amer. sl. – liquor, esp. cheap whisky
n. 2. 1918 Amer. sl. – a situation, person, event, etc. that portends harm and evil
vb. 1. 1893 Amer. dial. – to affect with passion or enthusiasm
vb. 2. 1931 Amer. dial. – in hoodoo: to harm by means of magic
 
• POISON APPLE
n. 1950 Amer. dial. – the tomato
 
• POISON CREEPER
n. 1898 Amer. dial. – poison ivy
 
• POISONED ON
adj. 1893 Amer. dial. – smitten by, in love with
 
• POISONER 
n. 1905 Aust. & NZ jocular usage – a cook, esp. a cook on a sheep or cattle station
 
• POISON IVY
n. 20C sl. – in dominoes; 3-3
 
• POISON-NEAT
adj. 1877 Amer. dial. – extremely neat
 
• POISON-OAKER
n. 1. 1930 Amer. dial. – a native Northern Californian
n. 2. 1969 Amer. dial. – a countrified person; a rustic
n. 3. 1969 Amer. dial. – a mountaineer
n. 4. 1969 Amer. dial. – a native of Oklahoma
 
• POISON-PATED
adj. 1780 – red-haired
 
• POISON-PEN LETTER
n. 1929 Amer. sl. – a malicious anonymous letter; an obscene crank letter
 
 • POISON PILL
n. 1980s Amer. business & finance usage – any financial stratagem that causes a company to be unattractive to takeover bidders
 
• POISON UP ON
vb. 1933 Amer. dial. – to come to dislike or mistrust
 
• POISON WIND
n. 1934 Amer. dial. – a raw, rough wind; the east wind
 
• PO-JO
adj. 1950 Amer. dial. – drab; dreary; poverty-stricken