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  • pus-gut
    n. 2. [DAS pus-gut a fat-bellied man; cf. US dial, South pussy-gutted having a large abdo­men WEA, pursley gut or pussle
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  • pus leg
    n. a swollen leg with sores (associated with alcoholism). (Black)
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  • purple lily
    [OED different sp.] n. the oyster plant, Rhoeo discolor. = BOAT LILY (Andros, Adelaide)
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  • purple
     [OED, mixtures of red and blue] adj. (of skin color) very dark (not derogatory). cf. NAVY-BLUE BLACK (Black)
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  • purgenut
    [from laxative effect of fruit] n. a tree (sp?) with nuts resembling peanuts. (Andros)
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  • purge
    [OED, of a medicine: to empty (the stom­ach, bowels)] v. (of a corpse) to discharge from the mouth, nose, etc.: 1966 The
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  • pure
    [Car.; OED, nothing but] adj. nothing else but: They eat pure bread [i.e. with no other food] (San Sal.) cf. LONE
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  • purchase
    [OED, leverage] n. sense of balance: The baby will get her purchase (Nassau).
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  • puppy show
    See POPPY-SHOW
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  • puppy shark
    n. 1. [W Car. idem] a shark, Carchar­ius limbatus. (Gen.) 2. [cf. puppus porpose] the porpoise. (San Sal.)
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