256 Contributions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 
Plough, ddd :—s.W. 
Plurals. dd: 
In S. Wilts hourn is still used as the pl. of hour. 
“She weren’t ill but two hourn.” 
*Plum. Soft and yielding, as India-rubber. (Hist. of Chipp.) NW. 
Plutch. A scab or blotch. S.W. 
Pog. (1) Add :—To punch with the fist. S.W. (Deverill.) : 
(2) Add :—To plant potatoes. S.W. (Deverill.) : 
Pond-beater, Pond-rammer. A kind of beetle with the handle set — 
slanting, used in puddling ponds. : S.W. (Shrewton.) 
ial i opinjay. Picus viridis, Green Woodpecker. (Birds of Marlborough.) 
Povey. (1) An Owl. N.W. (Gloue. bord.) 
(2) Plovers or “pluvyers” are occasionally termed P oveys. N.W. 
(Clyffe Pypard.) 
Powning. The gable of a house. Cp. Pwine-end. 
“The barge end of the pounynge of hys house.’—Castle Combe MS. 
Court Books, 12 Eliz. 
“To mend his poyninge end.” —Jbid, 7 Eliz. 
Privet. Add :—N. & S.W. 
Pronged. Add :—8.W. (Deverill.) 
Proper. Add :—s.W. 
*Puckfoust. Lycoperdon Bovista, L., Putt-ball. N.W. (Gloue. bord.) 
*Puff-ball. Some kind of game. ? obsolete. 
“John Brewer . . . for playinge at Puf bale.’—Castle Combe MS. 
Court Books, 10 Eliz. 
*Pug. Add:—(4) To punch. Cp. Pog. N.W. (Potterne.) 
Purdle. Add :—Verb transitive in Deverill. 
*Puvvat. “All of a puvvat,” all one mass of blossom. S.W. (Tisbury.) 
Quean. Add :—At Deverill also this term is used respectfully, and may 
perhaps, be said to mark the position of the woman as “ one in authority” in 
the household. 
Quest. Add :—(2) v. To give tongue, as a dog when onascent. N.& 8.W. 
Quiff. Add :—Both “ quiff ” and “to work a quiff” are in use in 8, Wilts. 
Quilt. Add :—*Quilp at Chippenham. (Hist. of Chipp.) 
Quiset about. Add :—s.W. 
Quodlins. The Codlin Apple. 
