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  • prance
    [cf. Gut. idem, to rear up (Parsons 1923: 35); cf. OED, of a horse: to spring and bound in high mettle;
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  • pound-cake bush, pancake bush
    [ etyrn?] n. a plant, Parthenium hysterophorus: 1971 (Rabley 31). 1979 Pound-cake bush is used as a wash for sores (Levanity 2). =WHITE
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  • pot-hole
    [cf. Brit, dial. idem, a pit in the ground OED; see quot. for folk etym.] n. a deep, cylin­drical hole
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  • pot gravy
     [cf. US pan gravy thickened sauce] n. the liquid left after meat has been cooked. (Black)
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  • potcake (2)
    [connection to POTCAKEI unclear] n. 1. any mongrel dog of no definable breed. (Gen.) 2. a short-haired, light-brown dog of mixed
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  • potcake (1)
    [from its caking on the pot] n. burnt or very crisp food adhering to the cooking vessel, considered a delicacy: 1973 Scrape out
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  • potato wood
    [ etym?] n. a tree, Ateramnus lucidus: 1977 (Patterson 27). Walking stick carved from potato-wood root (sign in Wyannie Malone
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  • potato bread
    [from POTATO sweet potato + bread] n. a baked pudding made of grated sweet potato, spices, etc.: We had that
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  • potato
    n. 1. [Car.] the sweet potato, as opposed to the IRISH POTATO. (Gen.)= BATATA 2. [from shape] the developing breasts of a pubescent girl:
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  • pot-a-full
    n. potful: 1966 She dress a pot-a-full of fish (Crowley 106). (San Sal.)
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