• P.U.
phr. said on smelling a bad smell, as something rotting …Bk1974 colloq.
• PUANT
adj. stinking …1621 obs. rare
• PUB CRAWL
n. a slow progress from one pub to another, drinking at each one …1915 sl.
• PUB-CRAWLER
n. one who goes on a pub crawl …1910 sl.
• PUBES
n. pubic hair …L16
• PUBICKERS
n. pubic hair …1995 Irish sl.
• PUCELLE
n. 1. a girl, a maiden, a virgin …c1430 obs.
n. 2. the Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc …c1450 obs. ext. hist.
n. 3. a slut, a courtesan, a prostitute, a wanton girl …1583 obs.
• PUCE PENCIL
n. an indelible pencil …1953 Irish sl.
• PUCK
n. 1. large quantity, ample sufficiency …1965 Irish sl.
n. 2. a short, sudden blow, esp. of ball in hurling …1979 Irish sl.
• PUCKA; PUCKAH
adj. genuine, certain, genuine, reliable, or good; excellent …1690 Anglo-Indian
• PUCKAROO; PUKAROO; PUKARU
adj. 1943 NZ sl. – useless, broken, out of order; destroyed, finished
vb. 1840 NZ sl. – to break, to destroy, to ruin; to kill
• PUCKAWN
n. a man who smells …Irish sl.
• PUCKER
adj. 1. certain, reliable; genuine; excellent …c1770 Anglo-Indian
adj. 2. of the highest class, best, excellent …20C sl.
n. 1. panic, contretemps …arch.
n. 2. bewilderment; perplexity …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
n. 3. a minnow; a small fish …Irish sl.
• PUCKERING STRING
n. a figurative part of the body, which can be damaged by some form of excess, usually laughter; as in the phrase, “If you don’t stop that, I’ll bust my puckering strings” …1910s sl.
• PUCKEROO
adj. 1943 NZ sl. – useless, broken, out of order; destroyed, finished
n. 1952 US sl. – a young man
vb. 1840 NZ sl. – to break, to destroy, to ruin; to kill
• PUCKFIST
n. 1. the puffball, Lycoperdon Bovista …1601
n. 2. a term of contempt for an empty braggart …1599
n. 3. a niggard, a close-fist (possibly an erroneous use as per E-NED) …1608 obs.
• PUCKISH
adj. mischievous, impish …1870
• PUCKLE
n. 1. a kind of bugbear …c1000 obs.
n. 2. a pimple, a pustule …1876 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a small quantity of anything; an indefinite amount, a few …B1900 Sc.
• PUD
n. 1. pudding, both savoury and sweet …1914 sl.
n. 2. a disliked person …c1920 Amer. college sl.
n. 3. the penis …1939 sl.
• PUDDEN
n. 1. a fool …20C Brit. sl.
n. 2. a second-hand car dealer’s term relating to filler in a car’s bodywork …20C Brit. sl.
• PUDDENHEAD
n. an oaf …19C Brit. & US colloq.
• PUDDIN-AN-TAME – ASK EM AGAIN AND I’LL TELL YOU THE SAME
phr. a schoolboy expression in answer to “What’s your name?” …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• PUDDING
n. 1. a fool …c1675 obs. rare
n. 2. the penis …1693 sl.
n. 3. meat laced with a drug used to put a guard dog to sleep; once accomplished the dog has been ‘puddened’ …1827 Brit. criminals’ sl., obs.
n. 4. an unborn child …1937 Brit. sl.
n. 5. a second-hand car dealer’s term relating to filler in a car’s bodywork …20C Brit. sl.
• PUDDING AND BEEF
adj. deaf …20C Sc. rhyming sl.
n. a chief prison officer …20C Brit. rhyming sl.
• PUDDING AND GRAVY
n. the navy …20C Brit. rhyming sl.
• PUDDING AND PIE
n. the eye … 20C Brit. sl.
• PUDDING BASIN
n. a mason … 20C Brit. rhyming sl.
• PUDDING CHEF
adj. deaf … 20C Brit. rhyming sl.
• PUDDING CLUB
‘n. pregnancy … 20C Brit. sl.
• PUDDING-FILLER
n. one who lives to eat, a glutton …1500-20 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• PUDDING-HEAD
n. 1. a stupid but lovable person; an oaf …19C Brit. & US colloq.
n. 2. an unpleasant or dull-witted person …1894 Amer. dial., usually derogatory
• PUDDING-HEART
n. a coward, a soft-heart, a poltroon …1834
• PUDDING-HOUSE
n. 1. an offal house …1595 obs.
n. 2. the stomach, the belly …1609 obs.
• PUDDING IN THE OVEN
n. a conceived child in the womb …1937 sl.
• PUDDING-KEN
n. a cook-shop …19C cant
• PUDDING-LEATHER
n. the stomach …1787 Sc.
• PUDDING-LEGGIE
n. a fat, chubby leg …1844 Sc.
• PUDDINGS
n. the guts …M15 colloq.
• PUDDING-SLEEVES
n. a clergyman …E18 sl.
• PUDDING-SNAMMER
n. a cook-shop …E19 thieves’ sl.
• PUDDIN IN TANE, ASK ME AGAIN, I’LL TELL YOU SAME
phr. said to a child when he asks “What are you making?” …1968 Amer. dial.
• PUDDLE
n. 1. a muddle, a mess …16C colloq. & Eng. dial.
n. 2. the female genitals …19C Brit. sl.
vb. to tipple …c1870 colloq.
• THE PUDDLE
n. the Atlantic Ocean; the ocean …c1880 colloq.
• PUDDLED
adj. mad, insane, or eccentric …1936
• PUDDLE-JUMPER
n. 1. a light plane, esp. one travelling only short distances or making many stops …1930s sl.
n. 2. an old rickety automobile …1930s sl.
n. 3. a small commercial vehicle …20C Brit. sl.
• PUDDOCK
n. a frog, a toad …1641 Sc.
• PUDDOCKSTEEL
n. a toadstool …1979 Irish sl.
• PUDDOCKSTOOL
n. a toadstool …1979 Irish sl.
• PUDDY
adj. 1747 rare – short, thickset; stumpy; podgy, pudgy
n. 1796 Sc. – a ‘puddock’, a frog
• PUDENCY
n. modesty; bashfulness; shamefacedness …1605
• PUDENDAL CLEAVAGE
n. the fissure or gap between the labia majora …20C sl.
• PUDENDOUS
adj. worthy of shame; shameful; disgraceful …1680 rare or obs.
• PUDENT
adj. having a sense of shame or decency; modest; delicate …1908 rare
• PUDERY
n. pornographic books or prints …c1930 sl.
• PUDGE
n. a short, squat person; anything both short and thick …1808 colloq. & Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to go slowly …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to prepare …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• PUDGY
adj. short or squat and fat …1836 sl.
• PUDGY WUDGY
n. a nickname for a fat person …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
► PUDIBUND adj. 1. that is subject of shame, shameful → 1542 obs.
adj. 2. modest, bashful, prudish → 1656
• PUDIBUNDOUS
adj. shame-faced; bashful; modest …1656 obs.
• PUDICK
n. a frog …1967 Amer. dial.
• PUDLICKER
n. a person who does fellatio …1990s Amer. sl.
• PUD-PULLING
n. masturbation …1939 Amer. sl.
• PUDS
n. pudding …20C sl. (rhymes with ‘goods’)
• PUDSY
n. 1. a foot …L18 nursery usage
n. 2. a term of endearment, esp. to a baby …20C sl.
vb. to greet affectionately or with familiarity …19C colloq.
• PUERILE
adj. 1. childishly foolish; immature or trivial …17C
adj. 2. of or pert. to a child or childhood …17C
• PUERILITY
n. the state or quality of being a child; the quality of being childish, foolish, or trivial …1425
• PUFF
n. 1. a decoy in a gambling-house …1731 sl.
n. 2. a specimen of extravagant praise. esp. for commercial or political purposes; an exaggerated commendation of a book, an actor’s performance, etc. …1732 Amer. sl.
n. 3. a mock bidder at auctions …1785 sl.
n. 4. a fop; an effeminate male; a homosexual male …19C Brit. sl.
n. 5. breath, ‘wind’ …1827 sl. & Eng. dial.
n. 6. a sodomist …c1870 cant
n. 7. life, existence …c1880 tailors’ usage
n. 8. gunpowder or other explosives used for safe-breaking …1904 sl., orig. US
n. 9. a lady’s man …c1935 RAF
n. 10. a weak or cowardly person …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
n. 11. cannabis; marijuana for smoking …1989 sl.
vb. 1. to release intestinal gas, to break wind, to fart …19C sl.
vb. 2. to praise unduly or with exaggeration
vb. 3. to bid on an item at an auction solely to increase the price that the final bidder must pay
• PUFF-ADDER
n. 1. an accountant …c1930 RAF usage, chiefly officers’
n. 2. one who farts in the bath, and then counts the bubbles …M20 schoolboys’ jocular usage
• PUFF AND DART
n. 1. the heart …19C Brit. rhyming sl. Brit
n. 2. a start …1880 rhyming sl.
vb. to start, to begin …1880 rhyming sl.
• PUFF AND DRAG
n. a cigarette …Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘fag’
• PUFF BOX
n. a machine gun …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• PUFFER
n. 5. a smoker …1615
n. 1. a steam-engine …1801 colloq.
n. 2. a train …20C Brit. sl.
n. 3. a steam barge …20C nautical colloq.
n. 6. a cannabis or crack cocaine user …20C Brit. sl.
• PUFFERS
n. cigarettes; used of cigarettes sold on the black market …20C Brit. sl.
• PUFFERY
n. undue or exaggerated praise; publicity, acclaim, etc. that is full of undue or exaggerated praise …1775
• PUFF-GUTS
n. a fat man …1785 colloq.
• PUFFICK
adj. perfect …1904 Amer. dial.
• PUFFICKLY
adv. perfectly …M19 colloq.
• PUFFING BILLY
n. a locomotive …L19 sl.
• PUFF JOB
n. a specimen of extravagant praise. esp. for commercial or political purposes …1732 Amer. sl.
• PUFFLER
n. on the railway: a foreman or ganger …20C railwaymen’s usage
• PUFFOON
n. 20C W. Indies sl. – a stench, esp. a fart
• PUFF PIECE
n. a newspaper article, book, film, etc. whose purpose is to praise or flatter; something written in extravagant praise, esp. for sales purposes …1980s colloq.
• PUFF-PUFF
n. a steam locomotive; a railway train …c1870 sl.
• PUFF THE GLIM
vb. of horse dealers, of old horses: to fill up the hollows above the eyes by pricking the skin and blowing air into the loose tissues underneath …B1890 sl.
• PUFF UP
vb. to inflate with pride, vanity, etc.
• PUFFY
adj. 1. fat, plump, obese; bloated …1664 sl.
adj. 2. bombastic
adj. 3. conceited
adj. 4. very favourable; adulatory …1980s Amer. sl.
adj. 5. gusty
• PUFT
n. a puff of wind …a1425 obs.
• PUFTERLOONER
n. a type of scone made of dough and fried in fat …1853 Aust. sl.
• PUG
n. 1. a term of endearment …M16 obs.
n. 2. a bargeman …L16 colloq.
n. 3. a child …L16 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. 4. a monkey; an ape …L16 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. 5. a ship’s boy …L16 colloq.
n. 6. a courtesan; a prostitute; a harlot; a mistress …E17 obs.
n. 7. a small demon or imp; a sprite …17C obs.
n. 8. a girl, a woman …E18 sl.
n. 9. a nickname for a dog or a monkey …1731 colloq.
n. 10. a fox, chiefly as a nickname …E19 colloq.
n. 11. a short or stumpy person or thing; a dwarf …M19 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 12. an upper servant in a large house, etc. …c1840 sl.
n. 13. a prizefighter or boxer; a pugilist …1858 Amer. sl.
n. 14. a dog of no matter what breed …c1860 colloq.
n. 15. the footprint of an animal …1860
n. 16. in trucking, a cabover tractor …1971 US sl.
n. 17. any young tough or mean man …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
n. 18. a male homosexual …1992 US sl.
vb. 1. to track an animal, etc. by footprints or another spoor …M16
vb. 2. to pull, to tug …L16 now Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to poke; to punch; to strike …E19 Eng. dial. rare
vb. 4. to thrust, poke or pack into a space …M19 Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to dirty by excessive handling …L19 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 6. to fight …1994 US sl.
vb. 7. to hide …20C sl.
vb. 8. to stash secretly …20C Brit. sl.
• PUG AWAY
vb. to stash secretly …20C Brit. sl.
• PUGGARD
n. a thief …17C cant
• PUGGIE
n. a hardened criminal …1965 US sl.
• PUGGLE
adj. insane, mad …1923 Brit. sl., chiefly services’ usage
n. a crazy or foolish person; an idiot …E19 Indian now rare or obs.
vb. to unblock a hole, etc. by poking with a stick or wire …M19 chiefly Eng. dial.
• PUGGLED
adj. 1. exhausted; fatigued; in a state of collapse …E20 sl. (orig. military) & Sc.
adj. 2. insane, mad …1923 Brit. sl., chiefly services’ usage
adj. 3. intoxicated with alcohol; tipsy; crazy drunk …1981 sl.
adj. 4. given to foolish behaviour …1985 Sc. sl.
• PUGGLY
n. a madman; an idiot; a dolt …Bk1892 Anglo-Indian sl.
• PUGGY
adj. 1. resembling the face or nose of a monkey or pug-dog; having such a face or nose …1722
adj. 2. damp and sticky from perspiration; clammy, sweaty, dirty, grimy …1790 Eng. dial.
adj. 3. of the weather: damp and warm, muggy …1875 Eng. dial.
adj. 4 apt to take offense …B1900 Eng. dial.
n. 1. a term of endearment for women and children …1611 obs.
n. 2. a monkey …1821
n. 3. a quasi-proper name for a fox …1827
n. 4. a squirrel …1878 Sc.
n. 5. a tracker …1879 Anglo-Indian
n. 6. a drunken man …1899 Sc.
n. 7. a kitty in a card game; a one-armed bandit; an ATM cash dispenser …1985 Sc. sl.
n. 8. a person with an overly upturned nose …Brit. sl.
vb. 1. to play tricks on, to befool …1891 Sc.
vb. 2. with up: to bridle up; to show temper …1896 Sc.
• PUGGY-DRUNK
adj. extremely drunk; intoxicated with alcohol …19C Brit. sl.
• PUGGY WORK
n. hard physical labour …1988 Sc. sl.
• PUGH!
int. an exclamation of disgust, as at an offensive odour …1600
• PUGIFIED
adj. pug-nosed …L18 colloq.
• PUGIL
n. orig. handful; later, as much or as many as can be held between the thumb and the next two fingers; a large pinch …L16 arch.
• PUGILANT
adj. pugnacious, fighting …L19 rare
• PUG-MARK
n. the footprint of an animal …M19
• PUGNACIOUS
adj. inclined to quarrel or fight; readily quarrelsome; contentious; belligerent …1635
• PUGNACITY
n. the condition or character of being pugnacious; inclination to fight; quarrelsomeness …E17
• PUG NANCY
n. a girl, a woman …E18 sl.
• PUG-NASTY
n. a dirty slut; a dirty prostitute …17C Brit. sl.
• PUGNOSE
n. a flattened nose …1769
• PUG’S HOLE
n. the housekeeper’s room in a large establishment …1847 colloq.
• PUG’S PARLOUR
n. the housekeeper’s room in a large establishment …1847 colloq.
• PUG-UGLY
adj. quite ugly; having a face resembling a dog’s …20C sl.
n. a very ugly person …20C US sl. & colloq.
• PUG UP
vb. to hide something …2001 UK sl.
• PUH-LEEZE!
int. give me a break! I do not believe that!; said with disgust …20C sl.
• PUISNE
adj. 1. small, insignificant, petty …E17 obs.
adj. 2. younger, junior …E17 now rare or obs.
adj. 3. later, more recent; of subsequent date …M17
n. a junior; an inferior; a novice …L16 obs.
• PUISSANCE
n. 1. power, strength, force, might, influence …1375 chiefly arch. & poetic
n. 2. an armed force; also, a number or crowd of people …LME obs.
n. 3. a showjumping competition testing a horse’s ability to jump large obstacles …M20
• PUISSANT
adj. possessed of or wielding power; having great authority or influence; mighty, potent, powerful, strong, forcible …a1450 arch.
• PUITHERNAWL
vb. to be busy with trifles …1960 Irish sl.
• PUKA
n. 1. any small, private place, such as a pigeonhole in a desk, a safe, a purse, a small suitcase, or the like …WWII US Navy use
n. 2. a hole …E20 Amer. dial.
• PUKAROO
vb. to break; to spoil …1864 Anglo-Indian
• PUKE
n. 1. vomit …L16 colloq.
n. 2. an obnoxious person; a real pest …E19 Brit. & US sl.
n. 3. any object, person, or situation that is so inferior, obnoxious, ugly, or disliked that it makes one vomit …sl.
n. 4. a disgusting or revolting person; a despised person …M19 colloq.
n. 5. a native of Missouri …M19 Amer. colloq.
n. 6. any food or drink that is repulsive …sl.
n. 7. anything that is contemptible or worthless …sl.
n. 8. a poor, unhealthy-looking person …Irish sl.
n. 9. a supercilious person …Irish sl. Slanguage Irish Sl Share 1997
vb. 1. to vomit …1600 sl.
vb. 2. in the illegal production of alcohol: to allow the still to boil over …1974 US sl.
vb. 3. while on a combat air mission: to separate from formation while under attack …1986 US sl.
• PUKE HOLE
n. 1. a shabby. shoddy, dirty place …1973 US sl.
n. 2. one’s mouth …20C Amer. sl., often offensive
n. 3. a toilet … 20C Amer. sl.
• PUKE-IN
n. a meeting or public occasion at which participants express their strong, usually antagonistic feelings about a topic …2000s sl.
• PUKE IT OUT
vb. to speak unrestrainedly …1920s sl.
• PUKE ONE’S GUTS
vb. to speak unrestrainedly …1920s sl.
• PUKE OUT
vb. to speak unrestrainedly …1920s sl.
• PUKEPOT
n. a despicable person …1973 US sl.
• PUKER
n. 1. a good-for-nothing …19C Shrewsbury School colloq.
n. 2. an orange …c1870 preparatory schools’ sl.
n. 3. a tourist …1997 US sl.
• PUKES
n. nausea; vomiting …20C sl.
• PUKE SOMEONE OFF
vb. to attack, to cause trouble for …1960s sl.
• PUKE UP
vb. to speak unrestrainedly …1920s sl.
• PUKE UP ONE’S HEELS
vb. to vomit a great deal at once …1965 Amer. dial.
• PUKE UP ONE’S TOENAILS
vb. to vomit violently …1965 Amer. dial.
• PUKE UP THE SOLES OF ONE’S SHOES
vb. to vomit profusely …1965 Amer. dial.
• PUKEY
adj. 1. revolting, repulsive, disgusting …M19 colloq.
adj. 2. disgusting, nasty, inferior …19C sl.
adj. 3. on the verge of vomiting; sickly, nauseated …19C sl.
• PUKE YOUR RING UP
vb. to vomit violently …2001 UK sl.
• PUKING
adj. disgusting …20C sl.
• PUKISH
adj. 1. nauseated …16C colloq.
adj. 2. disgusting …20C sl.
• PUKKA
adj. 1. of full weight; full, genuine …L17
adj. 2. of a fever: severe, malignant …M18 obs.
adj. 3. certain, reliable; genuine; authentic, true; proper, socially acceptable …c1770
adj. 4. excellent, of the very best, fashionable …1776 UK sl.
adj. 5. of a building: solidly built …L18
adj. 6. permanent …L18
adv. correctly, properly …1920s sl.
n. a copper coin …E19 now rare or obs.
• PUKKA GEN
n. completely reliable information …Services’ sl., esp. World War II usage
• PUKU
n. the stomach, the belly …1941 NZ Maori
• PUKY
adj. nasty; inferior; disgusting …1965 Amer. sl.
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