PUDDING TIME. In good time, or at the beginning of a
meal: pudding formerly making the first dish. To give
the crows a pudding; to die. You must eat some cold
pudding, to settle your love.
PUFF, or PUFFER. One who bids at auctions, not with an
intent to buy, but only to raise the price of the lot; for
which purpose many are hired by the proprietor of the
goods on sale.
PUFF GUTS. A fat man.
PUFFING. Bidding at an auction, as above; also praising any thing above its merits, from interested motives. The art of puffing is at present greatly practised, and essentially necessary in all trades, professions, and callings. To puff and blow; to be out of breath.
PUG. A Dutch pug; a kind of lap-dog, formerly much in
vogue; also a general name for a monkey.
PUG CARPENTETER. An inferior carpenter, one employed
only in small jobs.
PUG DRINK. Watered cyder.
PUGNOSED, or PUGIFIED. A person with a snub or turned
up nose.
PULLY HAWLY. To have a game at pully hawly; to romp with women.
PULL. To be pulled; to be arrested by a police officer. To have a pull is to have an advantage; generally where a person has some superiority at a game of chance or skill.