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Old 07-08-2008, 07:45   #154
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Re: lost dialect

Another odd word got me wondering about it's origin yesterday.

Pow'd.

As in 'I went to that new barbers, and he pow'd me', meaning it was cut very short.

Prisoner of War, up on the moors?

Anyone else heard the term?
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