Oald-folk’s neet, C, an assembly for feasting, dancing, and card-playing, held at the rural public houses; once, probably, confined to married people, but now open to, and attended by, young and old.

P.

Paddock rud, or rid, or ridding, C, frog spawn.

“Auld Grizzy the witch, as some fwoke say,

Maks paddock-rud ointment for sair e’en.”

Anderson. The Witch Wife.

Pang, C and S, to cram.

“An’ some there wer could scarcely speak,

Their thropples wer sae pang’t.”

Stagg. The Bridewain.