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pull up stakes
To leave a place and move elsewhere
pullet
A young girl. Filly is an exchangeable term.
pulling power
attractive influence or capability to draw people or things
pulling the plug
to stop or abandon something
pully hawly
To have a game at pully hawly; to romp
pum-pum
The vulva.
pummel
To thrash,—from POMMEL.
pump
A thin shoe. To pump; to endeavour to draw a secret from any one without his perceiving it. Your pump is good, but your sucker is dry; said by one to a person who is attempting to pump him. Pumping was also a punishment for bailiffs who attempted to act in privileged places, such as the Mint, Temple, &c. It is also a piece of discipline administered to a pickpocket caught in the fact, when there is no pond at hand. To pump ship; to make water, and sometimes to vomit. SEA PHRASE.
pump
To extract information by roundabout questioning.
pump and dump
to artificially inflate and then sell something, often stocks
pump out
to produce or release something quickly and in large amounts
pump someone's tires
to praise or flatter someone excessively
pump water
He was christened in pump water; commonly said of a person that has a red face.
pumpkin head
a foolish or stupid person
punch
A liquor called by foreigners Contradiction, from its being composed of spirits to make it strong, water to make it weak, lemon juice to make it sour, and sugar to make it sweet. Punch is also the name of the prince of puppets, the chief wit and support of a puppet-show. To punch it, is a cant term for running away. Punchable; old passable money, anno 1695. A girl that is ripe for man is called a punchable wench. Cobler's Punch. Urine with a cinder in it.
punch
Or the London Charivari.
punch above one's weight
Achieve more than expected given one's resources or status
punch below one's weight
To perform less well than expected or capable of
punch in
To enter a workplace by punching a timecard.
punch someone's lights out
to punch someone repeatedly and forcefully
punch someone's ticket
to confirm or acknowledge someone's action
pundit
A person who assumes to be very grave and learned.—Anglo-Indian.
Punic Apple
A pomegranate; so called because it is the pomum or "apple" belonging to the genus Punica.
Punishment is lame but it comes. (Strauss, 1994 p. 682)
Punishment may be slow but it is inevitable
punk
A whore; also a soldier's trull. See TRULL.
punkah
A fan, usually a fan of very large size, worked with a string, and used to ventilate rooms.—Anglo-Indian.
punt
To gamble; PUNTING-SHOP, a gambling-house. Common in ancient writers, but now disused. The word seems confined to playing for "chicken stakes." PUNT means now in the sporting world to back horses for small stakes.
punter
A small professional backer of horses.
puny
Weak. A puny child; a weak little child. A puny stomach; a weak stomach. Puny, or puisne judge; the last made judge.
pup and ringer
I.e., the "Dog and Bell," the sign of a flash public-house.
pupil mongers
Persons at the universities who make it their business to instruct and superintend a number of pupils.
puppy
An affected or conceited coxcomb.
purdah
A curtain.—Anglo-Indian.
pure and simple
Completely and without any complications
pure finders
Street-collectors of dogs’ dung.—Humorous.
puritan days
It is almost certainly of some now- forgotten armorial origin.
purl
Ale in which wormwood has been infused, or ale and bitters drunk warm.
purl
To spill; PURLED is a hunting and steeplechasing term synonymous with "foaled," or "spilt" (thrown); "he’ll get PURLED at the rails."
purl royal
Canary wine; with a dash of tincture of wormwood.
purler
A heavy fall from a horse in the hunting or steeplechasing field.
purple and violet
To express royalty, "kings and priests to God/* The colour of mourning for cardinals and the kings of France; in Turkey the colour is violet.
Purple Heart
A U.S. army medal awarded for wounds received by enemy action while on active service. It consists of a silver heart bear- ing the effigy of George Washington, sus- pended from a purple ribbon with white edges.
purple patches
Highly cotoured or florid passages in a literary work which is (generally speaking) otherwise undistinguished.
purple-headed yogurt slinger
A penis.
purse proud
One that is vain of his riches.
pursenets
Goods taken up at thrice their value, by young spendthrifts, upon trust.
purser's pump
A bassoon: from its likeness to a syphon, called a purser's pump.
push
A robbery or swindle. "I’m in this PUSH," the notice given by one magsman to another that he means to "stand in."
push against an open door
To take action when it is already supported or welcomed
push along
Synonym of push on.
push and pull
Influence or persuade someone in different ways
push in
to intrude or force one's way into a situation
push it
to proceed with a plan or idea
push on
Continue trying or working hard despite difficulties
push one's luck
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
push one's way
to move forward forcefully through a crowd
push up daisies
To be dead and buried
push water uphill
To attempt a difficult or impossible task
pushing school
A brothel.
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