“He’ll never mak his plack a bawbee.”—Proverb.
Pleen, C, complain.
“Thou’s spoil’t for o’ manner o’ wark,
Thou no’but sits peghan an’ pleenan.”
Mark Lonsdale. Love in Cumberland.
Plumb, C, (in Furness, etc., pron. Plowmb) perpendicular.
The old landlady at the boat house on Ennerdale water said of a neighbouring doctor who had visited her, and who carries his head well back, “He was mair nor plumb!”
Poap, C, to walk aimlessly.
“Sūm poapan aboot as if they’d be hoaf dazed.”
Rev. T. Clarke. T’ Reysh Beearin’.