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punies

punies noun: sickness, weakness.

Noun

punies pl (plural only)

  1. (Appalachia, US, dialectal, plural, plural-only) Sickness, weakness.
    • "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."1980, James Still, The run for the Elbertas, page 35
    • 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.2003, Mark O'Brien with Gillian Kendall, How I became a human being: a disabled man's quest for independence, page 152

Origin of punies

Probably from puny (“weak”).

Questions about punies

What does punies mean?
Punies means sickness, weakness.
What part of speech is punies?
Punies is a noun.

Words near punies in the dictionary

  1. Punick
  2. punicoside
  3. punicosides
  4. Punics
  5. punier
  6. punies
  7. puniest
  8. puniglandin
  9. punily
  10. punim
  11. punims

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