Pingle
Meaning: Off your food, or push it about your plate
Heard in Suffolk: They int well, ay jus’ pingle their food abowt
Standard English: They don’t feel well and are off their food
Primminnerry
Meaning: Confusion, perplexity
Heard in Suffolk: Oim in a’ roight state, uts all primminnery
Standard English: I’m in a right state due to the confusion
Pingly
Meaning: Unwell, weak
Heard in Suffolk: That poor Mawther, allus pingly ‘at one
Standard English: Poor girl, she’s always unwell that one
Puggy
Meaning: Muggy, humid weather
Heard in Suffolk: Oi can’t abide these puggy Summer days
Standard English: I cannot abide muggy Summer days
Pollywiggle
Meaning: Tadpole
Heard in Suffolk: Oi loike watch’un ‘em pollywiggles grow
Standard English: I like watching those tadpoles grow
Purdy
Meaning: Overly proud and ostentatious
Heard in Suffolk: At one’sa purdy, people avoid ‘em
Standard English: That one is so overly proud people avoid them