puckerow

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Hindustani پکڑو / पकड़ो (pakṛo, “catch [it]!”).

Verb

puckerow (third-person singular simple present puckerows, present participle puckerowing, simple past and past participle puckerowed)

1. (obsolete, British India, slang, transitive) To seize; to take hold of.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary