Shetland Words:P
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- paald = pressed against
- paap = nipple, breast, teat or anything teat shaped
- pachir = (n) a length of fishing line, 9 boughts or 360 fathoms or 720 yards
- pack-man or packie =(n) itinerant trader, usually selling drapery, carried in a 'pack' on his back. A flat stone by the roadside in Sandness is called 'Pack-man's Stane', where he rested on occasion.
- pack-sheet = rough hessian cloth
- packie = (n) twenty buchts of fishing line
- paes-wisp = (n) a tangled mass of line or thread
- paese be wi dee = peace be with you (benediction from pre-Reformation times)
- paetit = engrained dirt on cloth, clothing, skin or an animal's coat
- paike = walk in a prim affected manner, as if to convey an appearance of superiority, or that the walker considers their path of inferior quality or cleanliness
- patty = (n) a handraised piglet
- pech = pant, be short of breath
- pecht = (n) pict
- peeg = (adj) very dim ( der wis joost a peeg o'light fae da blinkie)
- peen = pane ( a peen o gless)
- peerie = small
- peeriewys = gently, slowly
- peerie start = a short while, time
- peerie weerie = (adj) very small
- peester = squeal, also the sound made by mice
- pell = where dung from an animal has adhered to their coat over a period of time, to form a roughly spherical or elliptical mass of dried or partly dried dung hanging from their coat
- pellick = porpoise, used in Sandwick
- pellit = (adj) matted (pellit rüll = young pony with matted coat)
- pen = feather
- penga = (n) money
- perk = a park, enclosed pasture ground
- pernym = (adj) prim, off putting
- perskeet = prim, show off
- pewl = to constantly complain and whine in both terms and tones at low volume, most commonly accompanied by crying
- phesic = stomach medicine
- piccatarrie = (n) common tern (Sterna fluviatilis)
- pick = (verb) tap
- pickit = tapped (I pickit upo da window), or heavily soiled with very deeply ingrained dirt
- pig = hot water bottle, (pit da haet pig i da bed)
- pig = (n) earthenware flask
- pillie = penis
- pilly = penis
- piltock = coalfish
- pintle = penis
- pipper = (v) tremble, shake through emotion (I wis dat mad I wis pipperin)
- pirl = small fecal dropping from animal
- pirm = cotton reel (A pirm o treed)
- pirr = light wind (A peerie pirr fae da wast)
- pirraina = (n) a girl
- pish = urine, to urinate
- pished = (adj) drunk (boy wis I pished dastreen), urinated
- pit = (v) put (pit da cat oot)
- pitten-aboot = bothered, inconvenienced, concerned about
- pitten-oot (adv) dismayed, let down
- pjaa = (n) breath (Im fairly oot o pjaa climin yun broo)
- plags = clothes, usually referring to unremarkable and/or well worn items, or as a purposely made understatement when referring to grander items.
- plantiecrub = (n)dyked enclosure for growing kale (cabbage) plants.
- platch = trudge through wet ground (I platched trow da mire)
- pleepsin = (adj) complaining, (sho wis aye pleepsin aboot dis or dat)
- plinkie-plinkie = musical instrument or toy, (from The Fetlar Lullaby)
- plook = (n) pimple (he hed a plookie face)
- plot = (v) to submerge pigs carcase in boiling water to remove hair. (plottin da grice)
- plucker = (n) sea scorpion
- plunky = (n) trick, practical joke
- plut = walk heavily and clumsily, splashing
- plüt = (v) complain in a fretting manner
- pock = (n) a scoop net (I pockit a lok o sillocks dastreen)
- pockie = (n) paper bag
- poind, poynd = (v) to impound trespassing animals
- pole = (n) a measure of area, 1/160th of an acre
- pooer = massive quantity (dir wis a pooer o sillocks i da pock
- pook = kick
- poor john = (n) a cod in poor condition
- poosk = (v) to search (indoors)
- pooskered = (adj) worn out, exhausted, (I'm pooskered eftir aa yun wark)
- pör = unhealthy person (he lookit laek a pör)
- pör ammus = (adj) unwell
- posh = (n) a rude kind of violin made in Shetland
- posney = (n) pott (Low 1774)
- pow = pool. Any significant sized (relative to it's situation) shallow standing water other than sea water
- preen = a pin, to pin
- preeve = try, taste (du'll preeve a drap o da craeter)
- press = cupboard
- prestingolva = (n) the minister
- prettikin = a feat or a trick
- prigga-trout = (n) a stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
- provokin = (adv) annoying, (most provokin) extremely annoying
- pukkels = (n) single grains of corn
- pund = (n) animal enclosure on the commonty walled in with a dyke
- punding = (v) 1) to place animals in an enclosure, 2) to impound stray sheep until fines are paid by the owner for their release
- purl = to scrape away lightly but steadily
- purr = (n) a small cod
- pushen = (n) seafood regarded as poisonous
- puskin = (adj) worthless
- putskirt = a generic term for a container, and can be applied to one made in a variety of shapes, sizes, materials etc. The inference is usually that it is of medium part of the range, and/or to hold a moderate quantity of the substance in question.
- pyaa = evidence of life in a person or animal. (nae pyaa atil him)
