POLYGLOT A parrot that can swear in several languages.

POSTSCRIPT The only thing readable in a woman's letter.

PRETZEL The bar-keeper's promoter.

PROTECTION Originally, the swaddling clothes of the infant,
Industry; now, merely the shoe-lacings for the giant, Monopoly.

PRO and CON Prefixes of opposite meaning. For example, Progress
and Congress.

PRUDE A native of Boston.

PRUDENCE A quality of mind that restrains the wise boarder from
trying to find out how his landlady makes her hash.

PRUDERY A quality that displays a lack of modesty as a wig does a
loss of hair.

PRUNE A plum that has seen better days: the boarding-house veteran
and the landlady's pet; badly wrinkled, yet well preserved.

PUGILIST A close-fisted party who is often roped in but never
gives up till he's out.

PULLMAN PORTER A legalized train-robber.

PUNCH A weekly obituary notice from London, chronicling the death
of Humor.