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  • plait
    See PLAT.
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  • plague
    v. 1. [Brit. colloq, OED; US dial. DARE) to annoy constantly: 1895 Dis snake use' to plague de tree (Edwards
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  • place
    [cf. racing place third] v. to occupy a particular position in a sequence: I am from a family of seven
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  • pity-ma-dick
    (Black); piramidig [cf. DM pirarnadig idem "echoic for the bird's cry"] n. a bird, the nighthawk (Chordeiles minor): 1880 Little
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  • pity: your ma mussy pity dog
    pity: your ma mussy pity dog [from belief that a child will resemble what its mother pitied when pregnant] phr.
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  • pitch a stink
    [cf. US Black pitch a fit or raise is stink idem (Walker 1956:254); also pitch a bitch idem (Gold)] v.
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  • pitch
    v. 1. [OED, to lurch (as of a ship)] (of peo-ple) to sway: 1966 Booky pitching and dancing (Crowley 88).
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  • Pistable
     adj. Episcopal: We did blonks to de Pistable Church (Cat).
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  • pissy
    [cf. Brit, slang pissed drunk, US slang pissed (off) angry] adv. very (drunk or angry only?): 1971 I got pissy
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  • piss-tail
    adj. impudent: That piss-tail thing think he is man (Eleu.). (Black)
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