Punies

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Sickness, weakness. Appalachia, US, dialectal, plural, plural-only

    ""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.""

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weakfreshmanabecedarianabsolute zeroabstemiousalphabetarian

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""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.""

Etymology

Probably from puny (“weak”).

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