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  • pot: sit on the pot
    v. phr. to wait until a visitor has left before serving food. (Eleu.)
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  • posteriors
    [OED, the hinder parts of the body; euphemism] n. the male genitals. (Eleu.)
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  • possum
    [cf. pus-gut idem] n. a small variety of swell-fish, Canthigaster rostrata? (Adelaide)
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  • portest
    [cf. OED protest proclaim obs. →1644] v. to proclaim: 1966 They portest (proclaim) Jack horn to be the Marbel golden teeth
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  • porpy, porper
    (Eleu.); puppus (San Sal.) [from Old Fr. porpois lit, hog-fish; cf. Scots porpy idem CSD] n. the porpoise, a marine
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  • porpus leaf
    [from PLOPPERS by /l, r/ alternation, metathesis, and devoicing of final -s; possibly in­fluenced by porpoise] n. a plant, Bryophyllum
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  • porky
    [cf. pokey vagina in Guy. (Rickford 1971:8), Vir. (Seaman); from PORK + -y (diminutive)] n. the female genitals (child's word).
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  • pork loaf
    [see quot.] n. cassava bread baked with strips of pork: 1934 Eleuthera boasts of a special Sunday morning breakfast...It is
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  • pork bush, poke bush
    n. pokeweed, Phytolacca icosandra: 1920 (Britton 135). = DULFER'S HAM (Black)
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  • pork-and-doughboy
    [W Car, different sp. with edible fruit; cf. DOUGHBOY] n. 1 a tree, Acacia acuifera: 1920 (Britton 160). (Black) 2.a
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