punies
(US, dialect, Appalachia) Sickness, weakness.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026
(US, dialect, Appalachia) 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."
Origin: Probably from weak. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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