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Elle is like a small whale? OK
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i can't find it anywhere, Jazzgirl?
I have "pogge", a fish.

It is , isn't it, Doglet!
Like 'parky' for cold , but that IS in Chambers!

Elle, I am sure you are right.
Lots of local words are not in dictionaries.
Most of my Dundee/Donegal dialect is not in Dictionaries.

http://www.yourdictionary.com/poggy

Rusty, I'm not talking to you anymore! Who are you calling a small whale?
Haven't you got some golf to watch?

Thanks ChrisG
That's good news.



poggy
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poggy

Not guilty, m'lud.
It was Jazzgirl!

It wasn't used as such, though, Chrisg!
and it was in fairly common usage, meaning 'wet'.
Maybe some relevance to whales needing to be wet? Who knows how these dialect words originate?

I have discovered that I indulge in pogonotomy every day!
Pogonos is Greek for beard.
Pogonotomy is shaving!
Amazing what you learn in dictionaries!

Rusty, see your post 1251!
I'm exonerating Jazzy!