The Broad Scots Dictionary

P

Pack - "twelve stone of wool"
Paidle - "to wander aimlessly"
Paitrick - "a partridge"
Parle - "speech; courtship"
Parritch - "oatmeal pudding, a well-known Scotch dish"
Pat - "did put; a pot"
Pauky or Pawkie - "cunning, sly"
Pay't - "paid; beat"
Peat-reek - "smoke of turf; whiskey"
Pech - "to fetch the breadth short, as in an asthma"
Peelin' - "peeling, the rind of fruit"
Pet - "a domesticated sheep, etc."
Pettle - "to cherish; a plough-staff"
Philabegs or philabeg - "short petticoats worn by the Highlandmen"
Phraise - "fair speeches, flatery; to flatter"
Phraisin' - "flattery"
Pibroch - "Highland war music adapted to the bagpipe"
Pickle - "a small quantity"
Pine - "pain, uneasiness"
Pingle - "to work assiduously; a small tin pan for children's food"
Pit - "to put"
Placad - "public proclamation"
Plack - "an old Scotch coin, the third part of a Scotch penny, twelve of which make an English penny"
Packless - "penniless; without money"
Plaidie - "diminutive of plaid"
Platie - "diminutive of plate"
Plew or pleugh - "a plough"
Poind - "to seize cattle or goods for rent, as the laws of Scotland allowed"
Poortith - "poverty"
Posie - "nosegay"
Pou - "to pull"
Pouk - "to pluck"
Poussie - "a hare, or cat"
Pout - "a poult, a chick"
Pou't - "did pull"
Pow - "the head, the skull"
Pownie - "a little horse"
Powther or pouther - "powder"
Powthery - "like powder"
Preen - "a pin"
Prent - "to print; print"
Prie - "to taste"
Prig - "to cheapen; to dispute"
Propone - "to lay down, to propose"
Provoses - "provosts"
Puddock-stool - "a mushroom, fungus"
Pund - "pound, pounds"
Pyet - "a magpie"
Pyle - A pyle o'caff "a single grain of chaff"
Pystle - "a letter"