puckerow

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowing from Hindustani پکڑو / पकड़ो (pakṛo, catch [it]!).

Verb[edit]

puckerow (third-person singular simple present puckerows, present participle puckerowing, simple past and past participle puckerowed)

  1. (obsolete, British India, slang, transitive) To seize; to take hold of.

References[edit]

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary