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Dialect ‘P’ 1
Pack friendly, ‘them two’s very pack’
Pad path
Paddle walk, ‘he’s that wake he can barely paddle’
Pang bung full, ‘’I am all panged up’, ‘pang up his plate’
Pant a story
Patch incomparable, ‘he’s not a patch on his father’
Peek pry
Peg a blow, ‘he got a peg on the side of the head’
Pelt n. naked, ‘in his pelt’: v. throw, ‘pelt him with stones’
Perk v. wasting, ‘she’s pelting away’: pleased, brightened, ‘she’s all perked up’, animated, ‘a perky wee bit, she is’
Pernickety fastidious
Perused sifted
Pick choice, search, ‘can I have my pick?’ ‘Pick one out’
Pickle quantity
Piece distance, ‘a quare piece off’, ‘put him a piece’, accompany him a part of the way, n. school (or worker’s) packed lunch, ‘have you your piece wi’ you?’
Pig’s back as in ‘on the pig’s back’, well-off
Pike big, lengthy, ‘a pike of a man’, greedy, ‘a pikey eater’
Pink accurate shot, ‘he pinked it first time’
Pinney pinafore
Pins legs, ‘he’s good on his pins, Paddy’
Pirtas potatoes
Pitch throw
Place home, house, farm,’I’m going till John’s place’
Plaster fuss
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