10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POWFAGGED»
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City news notes and queries [afterw.] Manchester notes and ...
ClIABXES HaRDWICK. Talbot-street, Moss Bide. POWFAGGED. (No. 2,911,
November 11.) [2,959.] " Powfagged " is one of a series of old country and
farming words which have become almost obsolete. Formerly mowing and
reaping was all ...
Manchester city news, John Howard Nodal, 1880
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Traddlepin fold; and other tales
Peawer, pour, power. Peawdher, powder. Peawnd, pound. Piece, warp. PiUins,
peelings. Plankt, placed. Pleck, place. Pleeas, please. Poo, pull. Pood, pulled.
Pot'll, pot-full. Powin', hair-cutting. Powfagged, wearied. Powse, rouse. Poynt,
point.
“It seems I can no longer scrub the entire floor without becoming powfagged. I
need to sit a moment and have a cup of tea.” Elizabeth felt her heart warming by
several degrees as she looked upon the face coming into the sunlight at the door.
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Lancashire rhymes; or, Homely pictures of the people
The root is the Latin sectile porrum, leek pottage. Pow. To cut the hair of the head
; the word is, no doubt, from poll, the head. Powfagged. Wearied out in both body
and mind. This may refer to either head or hand. PlG And Whistle. An inn sign.
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Chips fro' th' Owd Block: a selection of Comic Lancashire ...
"Come insoide, un ceawr yo deawn," sed Mary, "yoar quoite powfagged, awm
shure yo are ! Un whot the ferrups has browt yo up i' this querter so soon,"
continued Mary. "Well, yo seen, Mary, aw loike t' get throo mi journeys afore t' sun
gets so ...
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Tales and sketches of Lancashire life
Ther's some sort o' rumption gooin on 'ith country, no deawt, an' wi'st be gettin
lurked, or lawmt, or powfagged some road, so let's turn back while us booans are
whul." (Dick was a coward at the bottom, though he was noisy at meetings.) " Aw'
ll ...
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English Language Word Builder
... PERSISTER PHOCOMELY PINHOOKER POLLUCITE POWFAGGED
PRECAUDAL PREDATIVE PREFACIAL PREMERGER PRENUBILE
PRESCUTUM PREVENTER PROCONSUL PROFLUENT PROMOTIVE
PROREFORM PROSTERNA ...
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The Road from Wigan Pier: Memoirs of a Linguist
Swedish kasta nearer to "cast, throw" than "clod", krinklad nearer to "wrinkled"
than "widdert", harklippning nearer to "haircut" than "pow", trott nearer to "tired"
than "powfagged",y«tf .&? nearer to "just so" than "prigmeet". In my twenties I was
to ...
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Doing English Language: A Guide for Students
he'd just legged it back from t'factory and he were feeling dead powfagged and
he were pig sick of them moping about his yard. He said she should of leathered '
em in't first place and she'd better tell them if they did it again they'd get done.
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Walks in Ribble Country: An illustrated guide to 30 walks ...
NOTE .Anyone in a desperate hurry, dying of thirst, powfagged *,soaked to
theskin or brassed-off may make a ouick and direct return to Settle by taking the
walled track (FPsettle) to the R of the bairns at point ®. * Lancashire word -
synonym of ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POWFAGGED»
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powfagged is used in the context of the following news items.
There's nowt like Lanky words
Where are you from Mike Hunt, Penwortham. I'm powfagged - I'm tired. Steve Wareing, Preston. I'm reet glopant - amazed/shocked/surprised ... «Lancashire Evening Post, Jan 15»
Is Lancashire dialect going wambly and reasty?
I've heard of powfagged, Merlin, but never heard anybody say it! ... And of course for powfagged or jiggered, I forgot "fagged out" which I also ... «Lancashire Telegraph, Nov 09»
Been to Wigan, got the T-shirt that translates their dialect
Navigating such mysteries is a challenge which should end with a nice "brew" and the words "Am powfagged un jigger't" ("I'm extremely ... «Independent, Jul 06»
