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- pabble-delicious
- pacific
- packing house
- paddle
- pain-a-(belly)
- pain-a-belly bush
- pain-in-back
- painful
- pallitary
- palming
- pammy gaulinny
- pammy sickle
- pamolly
- panama
- pancake bush
- panelly
- panny sickle, pansicker
- panny-cake
- pantry
- panty
- papa, pappy; poppa, poppy
- papaw, pawpaw, papau, papue
- paper
- papyeh
- parade
- parch
- parch (2)
- parents
- parma city
- paroquet
- parrot wood
- partner
- partridge
- pass
- pass (2)
- pass (3)
- pass my gold ring
- pass over
- passing jack
- patty
- paulin
- pault
- paw
- pawg
- pawnga
- pawpaw
- pawpaw bird
- payana
- peach
- pealt
- peanut cake
- peanut snail
- pear
- pear, peer
- pear-leaf tea
- pearl edge
- peas tree
- peas(e)
- peas(e) and grits
- peasy, peasie
- pee-a-bed
- peel, peeled
- peel-head
- peeled string
- peer
- peg
- peggy
- pen-a-ma-dick
- pen-and-ink
- pencil tree
- people
- pepper
- pepper berry
- pepper bush
- pepper conch
- pepper wasp
- pepted
- percenter
- perfer
- peter
- Peter ain' better than Paul
- peter-ma-dick
- petty shop
- phthisic
- piano
- piazza
- pick
- pick (2)
- pick (3)
- pick chance
- pick house
- pick in
- pick out
- pick peter
- pick somebody's mouth
- pick up (1)
- pick up (2)
- pick up for somebody
- pick up your foot
- pick-and-choose
- pickaninny, pickin, pickny
- pickcheely
- picker
- pickle
- pickle
- picky
- picky-head
- piddy
- piece (1)
- piece (2)
- piece material
- piece of leg
- piece-piece
- piflicated
- pig
- pigeon berry
- pigeon gun
- pigeon peas
- pigeon plum
- pigeon shot
- pilcher
- pillow
- pills
- pilly-ma-dick
- pimp
- pimp, pimper
- pin-mouth
- pincher
- pine
- pine-slip
- pine-yard
- pineapple
- pineapple land
- pink
- pink conch
- pinky
- pious
- pipe-horse
- pipe-shank
- pippie
- piss-a-bed
- piss-cutter
- piss-off
- piss-tail
- pissimire
- pissing cloud
- pissy
- Pistable
- pitch
- pitch a stink
- pity-ma-dick
- pity: your ma mussy pity dog
- place
- plague
- plait
- plait pole
- plane boat
- plant
- plantation
- planting stick
- plat, plait
- plate fish
- plate rock
- play
- play the blocks
- play-play
- plenty
- plenty-plenty
- plop
- plop-eye
- ploppers
- pluck
- plum berry
- plum rose
- plump
- pocaution
- pock, pork
- poco-poco
- poinciana
- poison bush
- poison cherry
- poison ivory
- poison toad
- poisonwood
- poke
- poke Death with a stick
- poker
- pokish
- pole
- police
- policeman
- polt, pault
- pommy-sicker
- pond
- pond apple
- pond bush
- pond crab
- pond grass
- pond top
- pond top hat
- pone
- ponga, pawnga
- pony
- pony (2)
- poo
- poomp
- poop
- poop-poop
- poor
- Poor Joe, Po' Joe, pojo
- poor mouth: cry (or talk) poor mouth
- poor-man blanket
- poor-man strength
- pop
- pop-eye John
- poppa
- poppers (1)
- poppers (1)
- poppers (2)
- poppy-show
- popular
- porg, pawg
- porgie conch
- porgy, porgie
- pork
- pork
- pork bush, poke bush
- pork loaf
- pork-and-doughboy
- porky
- porpus leaf
- porpy, porper
- portest
- possum
- posteriors
- pot gravy
- pot-a-full
- pot-hole
- pot: sit on the pot
- potato
- potato bread
- potato wood
- potcake (1)
- potcake (2)
- pound-cake bush, pancake bush
- pra-pra
- prance
- pray for (a baby)
- prays, praise
- Pregnancy and Birth
- present
- president
- press (1)
- press (2)
- press the block
- pretty
- pretty-ma-dick
- prickle
- prickle grass
- prickle pear
- prickle pine
- prickly bush
- prickly tree
- prim
- primit
- princess
- prise
- produce
- professor of plants
- prog, progue (1)
- prog, progue (2)
- program
- prop-pry
- proper: the proper
- prosperous
- prostitute
- proud flesh
- prove
- Providence
- provision ground
- provision land
- prune legs
- pry (stick), prize-stick
- publish: the publish
- pudding fish
- pudding-wife
- puddle of children
- pug-gut
- pulka mazulka
- pull
- pull it
- pull to you
- pull train
- pull-and-haul-back
- pull-back
- pullet
- pump
- pump-up boat
- pumpkin
- punch
- punish
- punk
- punu-kunuku
- pupfish
- puppus
- puppy shark
- puppy show
- puppy-foot
- purchase
- pure
- purge
- purgenut
- purple
- purple lily
- pus leg
- pus-gut
- pussley
- pussy-mouth
- pussy-seller
- put
- put-back
- put-put
- putting in jail
- putting out the baby
- putty, pooty
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ID #3264
poco-poco
[Car.; cf. Am. Sp." Cómo te va?" "Paco a poco": "How's it going?" (i.e. "How arcyou?") "Little by little" (i.e. "I'm making it—one day at a time"); cf. Gul. "How you stan' today?" "Kinda one-one" WSC (cf. ONE-ONE bit by bit); cf. reduplication of Port. Cr. poko-poko little by little (Ivens Ferraz 1979:59) and Haitian piti‑piti slowly but surely HCEFD] phr. fairly well (in response to "How are you?"). (Gen.)
Tags: phrase, reduplication, Spanish
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Last update: 2010-11-21 00:44
Author: Holm and Shilling, DBE, 1982
Revision: 1.0
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