306 Contributions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 
Mouch. Add:—Probably connected with O.F. mucer, muchier, Fr. musser, 
to hide, to lurk about. It always implies something done more or less by 
stealth. 
Much. ». To make much of, to pet. ‘Her do like muching ”=being 
petted. 
*Never-the-near. To no purpose, uselessly. “I cwourted she ten year, 
but there, ’twer aal niver-tha-near.” N.W. (Malmesbury.) 
Nineter. Add :—Not perverted from anoint (as if it meant set apart to evil 
courses and an evil end), but from Fr. anoventé, anéanti, brought,” to 
nothing, worthless. (Folk-Etymology, p. 9.) 
*Nurk. The worst pig of a litter. See Rinnick. N.W. 
Nurly. Of soil, lying in lumps. N.W. (Bratton.) 
On. Add:—(7) Onlight, to alight. N.W. 
Once. Add:—(2) “I don’t once (=for one moment) think as you'll catch 
un.” N. & S.W. 
*Over-get. To overtake, to catch up. N.W. (Malmesbury.) 
Overlook. To bewitch. Rare in Wilts, common in Dev. and Som. N.W 
(Malmesbury.) 
Peart. Add:—(5) Lively. “She be as peart as a bird, that her be!” N.W. 
Peck. (8) Add as example :—* Captain Middleton’s horse ‘ pecked ’—it is 
presumed through putting its foot in a hole—and threw the rider.”—Dazly 
Telegraph, 11th April, 1892. 
Pinner, Add :—“Next morn I missed three hens and an old cock, 
And off the hedge two pinners and a smock.” 
—Gay, The Shepherd's Week. 
*Pish. Add :—In Co. Clare, Ireland, this is the order to a horse to stop. 
Pitch. Add :—(10)v. Of ground, to have an uneven surface. S.W.( Hants bord.) 
*Pit-hole. Thegrave. Used by children. A Som. word. N.W.(Malmesbury.) 
*Pixy. A kind of fairy. This is a Dev. and Som. word, but is said to be in 
use about Malmesbury. 
*Pog. (1) To thrust with the foot. N.W. (Malmesbury.) 
(2) To set beans. N.W. (Malmesbury.) 
Prawch. To stalk, to swagger. ‘I see un come a prawchin’ along up the 
coort.”” N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
*Pride. Add :-—“ Petromyzon branchialis,L., . . . . in the southern 
part of England is locally known as the Pride. "Seeley, Fresh-water 
Fishes of Europe, p. 427. 
