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Playful Poems by Unknown
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{126} Pam, Knave of Clubs, the highest card in the game of Loo,
derived from "palm," as "trump" from "triumph."
{137} Partridge, a maker of prophetic almanacs, who was ridiculed by
Swift as type of his bad craft.
{94b} Peakish hull, hill by the Peak of Derbyshire.
{19} Pose, catarrh. First English, geposu.
"By the pose in thy nose,
And the gout in thy toes."
--Beaumont and Fletcher.
{88b} Prow, profit. Old French, prou, preu--"Oil voir, sire, pour
vostre preu i viens."--Garin le Loharain.

{91a} Qu, Scottish = W. Quhair, where; quhois, whose; quheill,
wheel; quha, quho, who; quhat, what.

{82a} Ray, striped cloth.
{151d} Rigwoodie, tough. Rigwiddie is the rope crossing the back of
a horse yoked in a cart; rig, back, and withy, a twig. Applied to
anything strong-backed.
{82c} Rise, "cherries in the rise," cherries on the twig. First
English, hris, a twig, or thin branch. The old practice of selling
cherries upon shoots cut from the tree ended in their sale by
pennyworths with their stalks tied to a little stick of wood. So
they were sold in London when I was a boy.

{151b} Sark, shirt or shift. First English, syrc.
{94c} Setiwall, garden valerian.
{147e} Skellum, a worthless fellow. German, schelm.
{149a} Skelpit, beat the ground with strong pulsation; rode quickly;
pounded along.
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