Plummy, round, sleek, jolly, or fat; excellent, very good, first-rate.
Plumper, a single vote at an election, not a “split ticket.”
Plunder, a common word in the horse trade to express profit. Also an American term for baggage, luggage. In Lower Canada the French packmen call luggage “butin.”
Plunger, a heavy cavalry-man.—Military slang.
Plutocracy, the wealthy classes. The Manchester merchants are often termed a millocracy, and words of a similar character are mobocracy and moneyocracy.
Pocket, to put up with. A man who does not resent an affront is said to POCKET it.
Pocket-pistol, a dram-flask.
Podgy, drunk; dumpy, short, and fat.
Pogram, a Dissenter, a fanatic, formalist, or humbug. So called from a well-known enthusiast of this name.
Poke, a bag, or sack; “to buy a pig in a POKE,” to purchase anything without seeing it. Poke was originally a pocket. Shakspeare says—