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  • pond apple
    [OED Anona laurifolia 1890→; from its marshy habitat and apple-like fruit] n. a tree, Annona aquatica: 1835 (Journal 47). = CORK WOOD, WILD
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  • pond
    n. a salt pan, a pond into which sea water is run and left to evaporate to form salt: Old
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  • pommy-sicker
    See BANNYSINKEL
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  • polt, pault
    /pohlt/ [cf. Brit. dial. East polt pelt DSS] v. to pelt with stones: 1971 Young boys would throw rocks or "pault" them
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  • policeman
    (San Sal., White); police bird (Eleu.) [from its plumage, suggesting a policeman's uniform (Cassidy p.c.)] n. the male red-winged blackbird, Agelaius phoeniceus:
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  • police
    [Car.; cf. Sp. policia idern ; dial. in Brit. CSD, and US DAE] n. a policeman: 1966 He was a police
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  • pole
    n. a pool stick. (Black)
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  • pokish
    [cf. "to poke one's nose in other people's business") adj. inquisitive. (Black)
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  • poker
    [OED poke to jab] n. a kind of large mos­quito (sp?): Down along that track road them poker does bug me
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  • poke Death with a stick
    v. phr. to court danger; tempt fate. (Black)
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