puckerow, v. Army and Naut. slang.
(ˈpʌkərəʊ)
Also puckarow, puckero, puckerrow.
[ad. Hind. pakṛo imp. of pakaṛnā to seize.]
trans. To seize, lay hold of. Also intr. or absol. (rare).
| 1866 G. O. Trevelyan in Fraser's Mag. LXXIII. 390 Fanny, I am cutcha no longer. Surely you will allow a lover who is pucka to puckero. 1876 C. Chapman Sailor's Life at Sea iv. 224 Now is the time; let us ‘puckerrow’ it. 1886 Yule & Burnell Hobson-Jobson p. xix, Hindustani verbs..are habitually adopted into the quasi-English by converting the imperative into an infinitive. Thus..to puckarow. 1887 Outing July 331/1 Charley Wheeler were the lucky man as had ‘puckerowd’ poor Hans' dry-goods. 1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-Waif xvi. 194 So mechanically did they ‘puckarow’ those baskets, that often one would pass from the hatch to the gang way empty. 1907 M. Roberts Flying Cloud iii. 13 What with puckerowing cases, lashing tanks, and frapping stunsail-booms on the deck-house..there was enough to do. 1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 59 Puckero, take; seize. 1931 W. Kirk in Cabar Feidh Sept. 389/2 Not all the legislators, robbing poor and rich to-day, can puckarow my talisman—the Badge of Cabar Feidh! |