Reverse Dictionary: PON – POO

PONCE – person (also see PROSTITUTE – person, other)
– HARRY RONCE someone who lives off immoral earnings …Bk2004 Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘ponce’
– RIBALD a ponce …Bk1903 sl.
– RIBAUD a ponce …Bk1903 sl.
 
POND – nouns
– BULL-HOLE a small pond or water-hole …1887 US
– CARR a pond or pool; a bog or fen; wet boggy ground …c1330 Eng. dial
– CATHOLE a deep place in a river, creek, pond, etc. …1842 Amer. dial.
– DELF a pond …1841 Eng. dial.
– DIKE a pool of water, a puddle; a pond …1788 Eng. dial.
– ETCH a small pond …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– GURGES a fish-pool, a pond …1875 Eng. dial.
– HASSOCK a large pond …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– LACHE a pond; a pool …1868 Eng. dial.
– LAGOONA a pool or pond of salt or fresh water, often alongside a larger body of water …1838 Amer. dial.
– LAGUNA a pool or pond of salt or fresh water, often alongside a larger body of water …1838 Amer. dial.
– LAKE † 1. a pond, a pool …a1000
2. a pond formed by damming up a stream …1796 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– LOON SHIT the mud or muck on the bottom of a pond …1974 Brit. sl.
– MERE a small lake or sheet of standing water; a pond …1788 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– PAN a pond …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– PANTS the ponds or sloppy places left by unusually high tides on the foreshore or between the sea embankments …1891 Eng, dial.
– RIFE a salt-water pond …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– TANK a piece of deep water, natural or artificial; a pond or pool …1678 Eng. & Amer. dial.
 
PONDER – verbs
– CAST † to revolve in one’s mind, to debate with oneself, to consider, to ponder, to deliberate …a1340 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– DASCAN † to ponder; to consider …c1579 Sc.
– HANKER to hesitate, to ponder, esp. to hesitate in speaking …1873 Eng. dial.
– LAY THE BRAIN ASTEEP to ponder, to revolve in the mind, to make a mental effort …1895 Sc.
– MAUNDER to talk idly and incoherently; to mumble; to grumble; to threaten in an undertone; to muse, to ponder …1691 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– MAUSE † to ponder upon; to gaze at; to admire …1790 Eng. dial.
– NOODLE to think, to ponder …1942 US sl.
– PENSICULATE †* to consider, to ponder …1623
– PENSITATE †* to weigh in the mind; to consider, to ponder …1623
– SET THE BRAIN ASTEEP to ponder, to revolve in the mind, to make a mental effort …1895 Sc.
– SPLISH AND SPLASH to debate a topic; to ponder without coming to a decision …1970s US Black sl.
– VOLVE to ponder or mull over
 
PONDEROUS – adjectives
– CLUNKY ponderous and inefficient …Bk2006 US sl.
– ELEPHANTIC * pert. to or resembling an elephant; huge, ponderous …1598
– PEISANT † having great weight; heavy, ponderous …1520
 
PONDEROUSLY – adverbs
– HEAVY heavily; ponderously; massively; burdensomely, oppressively …c1000
 
PONY – see HORSE
 
POOL (water) – adjectives
– LACUSCULAR pert. to a small pool; frequenting small pools …1878
– LAKISH † abounding in lakes or pools; inhabiting a lake …1590
pool (water) – nouns
– CARR a pond or pool; a bog or fen; wet boggy ground …c1330 Eng. dial
– HAFT an island in a pool …1686 Eng. dial.
– LACHE a pond; a pool …1868 Eng. dial.
– LAGOONA a pool or pond of salt or fresh water, often alongside a larger body of water …1838 Amer. dial.
– LAGUNA a pool or pond of salt or fresh water, often alongside a larger body of water …1838 Amer. dial.
– LAKE † 1. a pond, a pool …a1000
2. a small, stagnant pool, esp. one formed at ebb-tide on the shore …1758 Sc.
3. a pond formed by damming up a stream …1796 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– LAY † a lake, a pool …a1000 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– MERE-POOL a pool of water …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– NATATORY † a swimming-bath, a pool …c1400
– SINK a well or pool of water …1834
– SIPE a small spring or pool of water …1825 chiefly Sc.
– SUMP † a small body of water, a puddle, a dirty pool …c1425 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– TANK a piece of deep water, natural or artificial; a pond or pool …1678 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– VADDLE a wading place; a shallow pool at the head of a bay or creek …Bk1905 Sc.
 
POOL (game) – adjectives
– DEAD in pool: said of a shot made such that the cue ball stops completely after striking the object ball …1990 US sl.
pool (game) – nouns
– ACE in pool: the number one ball …1878 US sl.
– ACTION 1. in pool: spin imparted on the cue ball to affect the course of the object ball or the cue ball after striking the object ball …1913 US sl.
2. in pool: a game played with wagers …1990 US sl.
– AIR BARREL in pool: that which backs a bet made without money to back the bet …1990 US sl.
– BARREL in pool: a betting unit; ‘if you have $1000 and you’re playing for $100 a game, you’re packing ten barrels‘ …1990 US sl.
– BAT a pool or billiards cue …1970 Amer. dial.
– BATOON a short, straight stick; a pool or billiards cue …1806 Amer. dial.
– BATTOON a short, straight stick; a pool or billiards cue …1899 Amer. dial.
– CHERRY in pool: an extremely easy shot …1993 US sl.
– CONDOM in pool: a removable rubber sleeve for a cue stick …1993 US sl.
– DUCK in pool: a shot that cannot be missed or a game that cannot be lost …1990 US sl.
– GAFF SHOT in pool: an elaborate shot, esp. an illegal one …1985 US sl.
– GARBAGE SHOT in pool: a shot made with luck, not with skill …1979 US sl.
– GOOD HITTER in pool: an excellent cue stick …1990 US sl.
– GREEN the felt surface of a pool table …1990 US sl.
– GUTTER BALL in pool: a shot in which the cue ball falls into a pocket …1993 US sl.
– JACKING OFF racking up the pool balls …20C gambling sl.
– JUICE in pool: spin imparted to the cue ball to affect the course of the object ball or the course of the cue ball after it strikes the object ball …1993 US sl.
– LAMBETH WALK in snooker and pool: chalk …1992 UK rhyming sl.
– LITTLES in pool: the solid-coloured balls numbered 1 to 7 …1990 US sl.
– NATURAL in pool: a shot that cannot be missed or a game that cannot be lose …1990 US sl.
– OCEAN in pool: the expansive centre of a table …1993 US sl.
– OIL in pool: extreme spin imparted to the cue ball to affect the course of the object ball or the cue ball after striking the object ball …1912 US sl.
– RAG in pool: a cushion …1985 US sl.
– RAKE in pool: a device used to support the cue stick for a hard-to-reach shot …1990 US sl.
– REBEL TRAP in pool: the largest regulation-size table …1990 US sl.
– ROCK a pool ball …1990 US sl.
– SISSY STICK in pool: a mechanical device used to support the cue on hard-to-reach shots …1970 US sl.
– SITTER in pool: a ball perched on the lip of a pocket …1924 US sl.
– SKID SHOT in pool: a shot made with backspin on the cue ball …1993 US sl.
– SLOP in pool: a shot made unintentionally …1990 US sl.
– SNEAKY PETE in pool: an expert player’s custom cue, designed to look like an ordinary cue …1993 US sl.
– STACK 1. in pool: the balls assembled inside the rack before a game …1977 US sl.
2. in pool: the clustered pack of balls left at the foot of the table after the first shot of the game …1990 US sl.
– TABLE TIME a time-based charge for playing pool …1993 US sl.
– UPTOWN in pool: the area at the head of the table …1993 US sl.
– WRONG-WAY ENGLISH in pool: a spin imparted on the cue ball such that the angle of refraction off a cushion is different, if not opposite, from what would be expected …1993 US sl.
– ZULU GOLF pool …20C US sl.
pool (game) – person
– BANGER a clumsy, ineffective pool or billiards player …Bk2006 Amer. sl. 
– FACE a professional pool player who is well known and recognized making it impossible for him to make a living betting with unsuspecting amateurs …1990 US sl.
– FAGIN in pool: a person who backs a player financially in his bets …1990 US sl.
– GARDENER in pool: a betting player who wins …1990 US sl.
– HUSTLER a person who makes his living by playing pool for wagers, feigning a skill level below his true level to secure bets …1967 US
– PUNK an inferior pool player …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
– RAILBIRD in pool: a spectator …1993 US sl.
– TOP STICK the best regular player in a pool hall …1990 US sl.
pool (game) – verbs
– COAT in tournament pool: to obscure the view of the tournament judge when making a shot, thus jeopardizing the point …1972 US sl.
– CROAK in pool: to miscue …1988 Can. sl.
– DUCK in pool: to miss a shot or lose a game intentionally to mislead an opponent as to your true ability …1993 US sl.
– KILL in pool: to strike the cue ball such that it stops immediately upon hitting the object ball …1984 US sl.
– LIE DOWN in pool: to play below your skill level to lure strangers into playing against you for money …1993 US sl.
– PARK THE BALL in pool: to leave the cue ball roughly in the centre of the table after an opening break shot …1992 US sl.
– WAGGLE in pool: to make practice shots before actually hitting the cue ball …1993 US sl.
 
POOR (without money) – adjectives
– BAD OFF poor …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– BADLY OFF not wealthy or fortunate …Bk1999 
– BEGGARY † beggarly, poor; mean, contemptible …1542
– BROKEN penniless, out of funds, impoverished, poor …M17 sl.
– BUSHED poor, without money …1812 sl.
– DABRICH poor, needy …c1800 Sc.
– EGENE †* needy, poor …1631
– EGESTUOSE † very poor and needy …1775
– EGESTUOUS † extremely poor and needy …1656
– FULL OF MONEY AS A TOAD IS OF FEATHERS, AS penniless, poor, impoverished …B1900
– GALLOWS POOR very poor …L18 sl.
– HAVELESS † without possessions, destitute, indigent, poor …c1000
– HAVENLESS † without possessions, destitute, indigent, poor …c1000
– HEAN † mean, abject, poor; humble, lowly; abased, ignoble; miserable, wretched, dejected, humiliated; of little importance, trivial …c825
– HENE † mean, abject, poor; humble, lowly; abased, ignoble; miserable, wretched, dejected, humiliated; of little importance, trivial …c825
– ILL-MONIED † ill supplied with money, poor …1608
– ILL-OFF poor, in impoverished or straitened circumstances …1820 Sc.
– ILL-TO-DO in poor circumstances, poor, needy …1853
– MEAN of people and things: poor in quality or condition; comparatively worthless …E19 US sl.
– NACKLE-ASS of persons and things: poor, mean, inferior, paltry …Bk1903 Eng. dial.
– NAUGHTY † having or possessing naught; poor, needy …1377
– NEEDSOME * marked by need; needy, poor …1870
– OFF THE COB poor …1930s US sl.
– ONE-GALLOWS of people: rustic, poor; low-class; hence, typical of such people …1882 Amer. dial.
– ONE-GALLUS of people: rustic, poor; low-class; hence, typical of such people …1899 Amer. dial.
– ONE-GALLUSED of people: rustic, poor; low-class; hence, typical of such people …1904 Amer. dial.
– ON THE FLOOR poor …1960 UK rhyming sl.
– ON THE RORY poor, penniless …M19 sl.
– OOFLESS poor, in want of money …1888 sl.
– ORDINARY inferior, poor, worthless, contemptible, immoral …1800 Amer. dial.
– ORNERY inferior, poor, insignificant, worthless, contemptible, mean, immoral …1816 Amer. dial.
– PEBBLE-BEACHED utterly penniless; very poor, destitute; in want of money …1886 sl.
​- PENURIOUS extremely poor; destitute
– POOR AS ADAM’S OFF-OX, AS extremely poor …1966 Amer. dial.
– POOR AS A JAYBIRD extremely poor …1965 Amer. dial.
– POOR AS AN OWL very poor …1968 Amer. dial.
– POOR AS A RAT very poor …1782
– POOR AS BILLY HELL very poor …1965 Amer. dial.
– POOR AS BILLY-BE-DAMNED very poor …1968 Amer. dial.
– POOR AS DICK’S HATBAND very poor …1968 Amer. dial.
– POOR AS GAR BROTH very poor …1912 Amer. dial.
– POOR AS GOD’S OFF OX, AS very poor …1848 Amer. dial.
– POOR AS JACOB’S CAT very poor, having lost everything …1966 Amer. dial.
– POOR AS JOB very poor, destitute …1553 
– POOR AS OWL DUNG very poor …1974 Amer. sl.
– POOR AS OWL SHIT very poor …1967 Amer. sl.
– POOR AS POVERTY IN A GALE O’ WIND extremely poor …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– POORER THAN CATWATER very poor …1958 Amer. dial.
– POORER THAN SKIMMED WHEY extremely poor …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– POVERTY-POOR very poor, destitute …1911 Amer. dial.
– PURSE-PINCHED in straitened circumstances; habitually poor …1603 arch.
– PUT TO ONE’S STUMPS poor, hard-up …Bk1904 sl.
– RAGGY-ARSED very poor …1990s Aust. sl.
– RED-NECKED pert. to a redneck; poor, ignorant, narrow-minded, boorish, racist; belligerent, loud …1986 Amer. dial.
– RED-NECKY pert. to a redneck; poor, ignorant, narrow-minded, boorish, racist; belligerent, loud …1986 Amer. dial.
– SCANT poor, badly off …1715 Sc.
– SCANT IN THE WALLET poor …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– SIMPLE † poor, wretched, pitiful, dismal …a1300
– STUMPED poor, hard-up …1837 sl.
– TORN-DOWN reduced in circumstances …1877 Eng. dial 
– UNOOFY impoverished, poor …L19 sl.
– UPTIGHT poor, impoverished, lacking money …1967 sl.
– WAEDLE † poor, needy …c1000
– WANTSUM † indigent, poor; devoid of …c1200
poor (without money) – nouns
– ARMPIT OF THE NATION the least appetizing, poorest, most run-down and potentially dangerous area of a city or town …1960s sl., orig. US
– ARSEHOLE the least appetizing, poorest, most run-down and potentially dangerous area of a city, town, or place …1930s sl., orig. US
– BACK-AH-YARD a poor area of the city …1930s US sl.
– BACK STREET a poor, usually residential, district …1967 Amer. dial.
– BUNKUM TOWN the part of a town where the poorer people, special groups, or foreign groups live …1966 Amer. dial.
– BUZZARD’S ROW the part of a town where the poorer people, special groups, or foreign groups live …1965 Amer. dial.
– CABBAGETOWN the poor area of a town; any run-down urban area; a slum …1967 sl.
– CODFISH FLATS the poor area of town …1960s US sl.
– COON BOTTOM a poor part of town, esp. one where poor Black people live …1968 US sl.
– DOGPATCH the part of a town where the poorer people, or foreign groups live …1965 Amer. dial.
– GABBY ROW the area of town where the poor live …20C US sl.
– GOOSE FLAT a nickname for a town or a section of a town, often a poor one …1965 Amer. dial.
– GOOSE GREEN a nickname for a town or a section of a town, often a poor one …1965 Amer. dial.
– GOOSE HILL a nickname for a town or a section of a town, often a poor one …1965 Amer. dial.
– GOOSE HOLLER a nickname for a town or a section of a town, often a poor one …1965 Amer. dial.
– GOOSE HOLLOW a nickname for a town or a section of a town, often a poor one …1965 Amer. dial.
– GOOSE NIBBLE a nickname for a town or a section of a town, often a poor one …1965 Amer. dial.
– GOOSETOWN a nickname for a town or a section of a town, often a poor one …1965 Amer. dial.
– GOOSEVILLE a nickname for a town or a section of a town, often a poor one …1965 Amer. dial.
– GREASY CORNER a poor settlement or neighbourhood …1966 Amer. dial.
– GREASY VALLEY a poor settlement or neighbourhood …1966 Amer. dial.
– MECHANICS’ ALLEY a poor or run-down part of a town or city …1968 Amer. dial.
– MECHANICS’ AVENUE a poor or run-down part of a town or city …1968 Amer. dial.
– MECHANIC STREET a poor or run-down part of a town or city …1968 Amer. dial.
– MILL TOWN the poor area of a town or city …1960s US sl.
– MILL VILLAGE the poor area of a town or city …1960s US sl.
– NAKED CITY the poor area of a town …1960s US sl.
– NEEDMORE a section of town, esp. a poor or disadvantaged one …1966 Amer. dial.
– PATCH, THE the part of a town where the poorer people, or foreign groups live …1965 Amer. dial.
– PEA HILL a remote, small, or poor place …1851 Amer. dial.
– PEA RIDGE a remote, small, or poor place …1851 Amer. dial.
– PEA STICKS a remote, small, or poor place …1851 Amer. dial.
– PIG ALLEY the part of a town where the poorer people, special groups, or foreign groups live …1967 Amer. dial.
– RAG ALLEY a nickname for a settlement composed of ‘rag houses’ (tents), or a poor or run-down part of town …1859 Amer. dial.
– RAG CITY a nickname for a settlement composed of ‘rag houses’ (tents), or a poor or run-down part of town …1917 Amer. dial.
– RAG TOWN a nickname for a settlement composed of ‘rag houses’ (tents), or a poor or run-down part of town …1859 Amer. dial.
– RIFF-RAFF the poor, illiterate class …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– SIMPLESSE † poor or lowly condition; also, lack of elegance or refinement; plainness of dress, etc. …1390 obs. exc arch.
– SHAG-BAG a poor, shabby or worthless fellow; an idle, ragged vagabond …a1700 colloq.
– SKID BOULEVARD a jocular term for a living area for poor people…1963 Can sl.
– SKUNK ROAD a name for the part of a town where the poorer people, special groups, or foreign groups live …1965 Amer. dial.
– TAN-YARD † the poor-house …1845 Sc. sl.
– TIN-CAN ALLEY a poor or shabby street or section of town …1898 Amer. dial.
– WAEDLES † the poor …c1000
poor (without money) – person
– ABRAHAM COVE a naked or poor man; a beggar in rags …1859 cant
– ABRAM a naked or very poor man …Bk1852 sl.
– ABRAM COVE a naked or poor man …1724 cant
– ARAB a young vagrant; a poor boy playing much in the streets …1910 colloq.
– BACKRA JOHNNY a poor White …1909 W. Indies sl.
– BANDA a poor, ghetto child …1994 US Black sl.
– BEGGAR one in indigent circumstances; a poor person …1340
– BROKER someone who is usually having financial problems; a poor person …L19 sl., orig. Aust.
– CAJUN a poor person of the wooded country of Alabama who subsists by lumbering, turpentine extraction and various odd jobs …1934 Amer. dial.
– CAMBRIDGE FORTUNE a woman who has no fortune of her own and must rely for attraction on her personal charms alone …L17 sl.
– CITY ARAB a young vagrant; a poor boy playing much in the streets …1910 colloq.
– COUNTRY SAGER a rustic; a country bumpkin; a poor White person …1949 Amer. dial.
– DEATH’S HEAD UPON A MOP-STICK a poor, miserable, emaciated fellow …1794
– DIRT-EATER (usually derogatory) one who eats clay; hence, a poor or low-class person …1840 Amer. dial.
– ECKY-BECKY a poor White person …1965 Barbados
– ELM PEELER a poor White who peels elm trees for slippery elm, which he sells …1923 Amer. dial.
– GARBROTH a poor or worthless person …1832 US sl.
– GAWDELPUS an impoverished labourer …Bk1909 sl.
– GERMAN a poor White …1940s W. Indies sl. 
– GIPPO, GYPPO (now offensive and derogatory) a member of the Romani people; a Gypsy; also, a poor or ill-kempt person …1868
– HAIRY a woman, esp. a poor woman …1920s Sc. sl.
– LACK-ALL one who is in want of everything; a thoroughly destitute or poor person; a needy fellow …1850 
– LINTHEAD a worker in a cotton mill; a poor rural White person …1933 US sl.
– MILL-CAPON † a poor person who sough the charity of those who had grain grinding at the mill …1827 Sc.
– MOUNT ST MORITZ BAJAN a poor White …1996 W. Indies
– OAT-CAKE FOLK poor people …1863 Eng. dial.
– ONE-GALLUSED FELLOW a worthless poor man …1892 Amer. dial.
– PECK a poor White person …1932 US Black sl.
– PECKAWOOD, PECKERWOOD a poor White person …1929 US sl.
– PIKE a poor White person; a good-for-nothing …1856 Amer. dial.
– PIKER (chiefly derogatory) a poor White migrant from the Southern states of the U.S. (orig. Pike Country, Missouri); hence, a member of a poor underclass, a vagrant or petty criminal …1859 US western sl.
– PINEY-WOODS CRACKER a poor or low-class person …1872 Amer. dial.
– PINEY-WOOD TACKEYS a poor or low-class person …1888 Amer. dial.
– POOR BARKER a low-class, poor White person …1890 Amer. dial.
– POOR BUCKRA a low-class, poor White person …1836 Amer. dial.
– POOR SNAKE a poor, needy, or humble person; a drudge …1590
– PORPOISE a pauper, someone who has lost everything and is very poor …1934 Amer. dial.
– QUARTERER a poor person who is given temporary lodgings by way of charity …1802 Sc.
– QUARTERMAN † a male pauper who was given poor relief by being lodged for a short period at a time in the various houses in the parish …1908 Sc.
– QUARTER-WIFE † a poor woman quartered in a house by the parish …1898 Sc.
– QUEER COVE, QUER COVE a poor man …M18 sl.
– QUEER CULL a poor, ill-dressed person …L17 sl.
– QUEER MORT, QUER MORT a poor woman …M18 sl.
– RAG BABY a poor, ill-clothed woman, who is nonetheless attractive …20C US Black sl.
– RAGGY-BACKS people who are not well off …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– REDNECK (derogatory) a poor, White, rural Southerner; a White person perceived as ignorant, narrow-minded, boorish, or racist …1891 Amer. dial.
– SAGER a rustic; a country bumpkin; a poor White person …1893 Amer. dial.
– SCHLEPPER, SHLEPPER a penniless person; a poor person regarded as a parasite …1949 sl., chiefly US
– STREET ARAB a young vagrant; a poor boy playing much in the streets …1910 colloq.
– TAX-EATER one who is supported from the public revenue. a poor person in receipt of relief …1818
– TOM DINGLE a poor, wretched fellow …1711
– WAIF-WOMAN a woman with no possessions or connections …1776 Sc.
– WALK AND NYAM a poor White; thus a sponger of any race …E19 W. Indies sl.
– WIDDY-WADDY a poor, weak woman …1777 Eng. dial.
– W.T. (derogatory) the poor, working class or underclass pupils (White Trash) …2000s UK juvenile sl.
– YARD APE a poor, low-class White person, White trash …2003 Amer. dial.
poor (without money) – person, other
– ADMINICULATOR † an assistant; an officer, or advocate of the poor …Bk1795
poor (without money) – verbs
– COME TO WANT to be reduced to penury …1782 
– DIE WITHOUT A BED to die poor …1881 Ireland
– DIE WITHOUT A SHIFT to die poor …1881 Ireland
– DIE WITHOUT WHOLE BREECHES to die poor …1881 Ireland
– EMPOVER †* to impoverish, to make poor …1474
– ERUMNATE † to impoverish, to make poor or miserable …1692
– IMPOOR † to make poor; to impoverish …1613
poor (without money ) – phrases
– IF STANDS STIFF IN A POOR MAN’S POCKET used to imply the difficulty poor people find in obtaining their wishes where money is concerned …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– SO POOR HE WOULD LICK THE PAINT OFF THE FENCE extremely poor …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
 
POOR (inferior) – adjectives
– AZZARDLY poor, ill-thriven …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BOSS poor, despicable, worthless …Bk1911 Sc.
– CROW poor; mean; trivial; insignificant; worthless …Bk1914 criminals’ sl.
– GRUNGY inferior, poor, dismal …1969 Amer. sl.
– LARRY among pitchmen: of unsatisfactory quality; poor …1939 Amer. sl.
– LOUSY bad, poor, contemptible ..c1386
– RASCALLY † poor, worthless …1600
– SCRANNEL lean, thin; poor, worthless …1857 Eng. dial.
– SCRANNY scanty or of inferior quality; poor …1867 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SCRAWVLIN † poor and mean …1825 Eng. dial.
– SCREEBIT poor, lean, fleshless …Bk1904 Sc.
– SCREEBIT-LOOKING poor, lean, fleshless …Bk1904 Sc.
– SHAN poor, mean, shabby …E18 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– SINGLE-SOLED † of persons: poor, mean, of little account or worth; insignificant …1588
 
POORHOUSE – nouns
– INFIRMARY a poorhouse or a farm where poor people are maintained at public expense …1931-33 Amer. dial.
– LAAD-MI-DON the poorhouse; the almshouse …1940s W. Indies
 
POORLY – adjectives
– AILDY † ailing, poorly …1697 Eng. dial.
– ANGISH sickly, unhealthy, very poorly …B1900 Ireland
– AT HALF-MAST poorly, unwell …1968 Amer. dial.
– BADLINS out of health, poorly, ailing …1932 Sc.
– BRIEF poorly, not well …1952 Amer. dial.
– DICKY of persons, animals, etc.: poorly, out of sorts, in weak health, ill …1883 Eng. dial.
– FEEBLY † in a sorry manner or plight; inefficiently, insufficiently, niggardly, poorly, scantily …c1290
– HANGY poorly, dull through incipient illness …B1900 Eng. dial.
– HILDING ailing, poorly …B1900 Eng. dial.
– INDIFFERENT poorly, bad, ill …1889 Eng. dial.
– MEAN ALL OVER unwell, poorly, under the weather …1967 Amer. dial.
– MIDDLINISH in a fair state of health; moderately well; not very well, poorly …1853 Eng. dial.
– PEASLY said of a person who looks poorly or unhealthy …1969 Amer. dial.
– SADLY in bad health, ill, poorly …1711 now Eng. dial.
– SINGLY † slightly, poorly, ineffectively …1548
– TENDERLY poorly, unwell …1787 Sc.
– TEULY weak, sickly, delicate; poorly, unwell …1691 Eng. dial.
– TEWLY weak, sickly, delicate; poorly, unwell …1691 Eng. dial.
– TOOLY weak, sickly, delicate; poorly, unwell …1691 Eng. dial.
– TULY weak, sickly, delicate; poorly, unwell …1691 Eng. dial.
poorly – adverbs
– LEWDLY † badly, poorly, ill …c1386
– NAKEDLY † barely, poorly, imperfectly; slightly …1589 rare or obs.
– NAUGHTILY † badly, poorly …1574
 
POOR-SPIRITED – adjectives
– MEECHING poor-spirited, melancholy, complaining …1836 Eng. dial.
– MELCH-HEARTED gentle, diffident, timid, poor-spirited …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MILK-HEARTED poor-spirited …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– NESH † timid; wanting in courage, cowardly; faint-hearted; poor-spirited …1382 obs. exc. Eng. dial.