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adj
Pretty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Pretty (somewhat, fairly).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Vladimir Putin (born 1952), Russian politician who has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Pootin, Pooty-Poot
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The female genitalia; the vulva or vagina.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: axe wound, badly packed kebab, bearded clam, beaver, beef curtains, burger, chocha, clam, cooch, coochie, coochy, cookie, coot, cooter, crack, cunny, cunt, fanny, foo-foo, front bottom, fur burger, fur pie, gash, gee, girl penis, hair pie, ham sandwich, honey hole, it, kebab, kitty, ladybits, minge, minnie, moocha, mooshoo, mott, muff, muffin, na-na, nonny, nooky, noonie, old hat, pee flap, pee-pee, pink, poontang, prat, pudendum muliebre, punani, pussy, quaint, quiff, quim, rat, roast beef, scut, slit, slot, snatch, treasures, tuppence, twat, twinkle, vadge, vagina, vajay, va-jay-jay, vulva, wee-wee, yoni
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Cepaea nemoralis, one of the most common species of land snail in Europe, with a dark brown lip to its shell.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: England, Northamptonshire, dialectal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: grove snail
Antonyms: none provided
History
Representing a dialectal or colloquial pronunciation of pretty. Compare purty. The adverb is derived from the adjective.
Clipping of Pootin + -y.
Possibly a shortening of poontang.
Uncertain. Possibly from pooty (“pretty”), although that term is attested slightly later.
