punies
English
Etymology
Probably from puny (“weak”).
Noun
- (US, dialect, Appalachia) Sickness, weakness.
- 1980, James Still, The run for the Elbertas, page 35:
- "Be-dabs, if the whole gin-works hain't got the punies. Even the mare tuck a spell today. She wouldn't eat corn nor shuck."
- 2003, Mark O'Brien with Gillian Kendall, How I became a human being: a disabled man's quest for independence, page 152:
- Other days, when I tried to get up despite feeling weak, she would inform me that I had a case of "the punies" and ought to stay in the tank.
- 2008, Carolyn Jourdan, Heart in the Right Place, page 222:
- “I brung my boy. He's got the punies and I want the doc to take a look at him.”
Anagrams
Catalan
Verb
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French
Verb
punies
- feminine plural of the past participle of punir
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) pūniēs