All down to interpretation.
lost dialect
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All down to interpretation.
It seems to have come down from C16th Scotland, where pow/poll meant head, and is mentioned in this song. There's quite a few other people providing evidence that pow is Scottish for head, on the linked site.
Dainty Davie
as recorded by Finbar and Eddie Furey
In yonder town there lived a maid
Ah, she was the keeper of her trade
She fell in love with a light brigade
And his name was Dainty Davie
Chorus [after each verse]:
So, leeze me on your curly pow
Dainty Davie, Dainty Davie,
Oh, leeze me on your curly pow,
You are my Dainty Davie.
My love, my love, my love, brine he
I have the longing for the sea
I'll go defend my country
Say farewell to Dainty Davie
Three days and seven years were gone
When she saw this figure came striding on
Oh she knew it was her own true one
Saying, come kiss me, Dainty Davie
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I suppose if you did have a short haircut your pow would be exposed.
pows - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
pows - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Did you ever play ont rec, on Windsor road Steely.
all the time , thats where the annual fair used to be held , think all the towns surrounding Blackburn used to have a smaller one the week before Easter then they all joined up for the big one on the old open market area in Blackburn , the days before they built the obscenity of the shopping center ,
Can you not remember where you left them
Aye....in a poggy oil at top a' Church Kirk lane.
2000 posts.............I must be losing the last of my marbles.
I remember mum talking about donkey stones (had to eventually tell my sister that you threw them at donkeys as she didn't understand why they're called it)
Another one, t'asda, as in goin' t'asda
or keckle, or tettle.
Never heard of stairs being called dancers, wooden hill was my mum's name for them, but more often just stairs, ge' up dem sturrs.... jus' goin' up t'wooden 'ill
Lived here all my life, and I get laughed at at college when I talk about 'hurr' and 'thurr' and 'stickin keckle on forra brew' and I tell the others to stick their non-accringtonian accets where the 'sun don shine'.
Plus, book is like buck, same with look, luck, and cook, cuck.
Another one, t'asda, as in goin' t'asda
or keckle, or tettle.
Never heard of stairs being called dancers, wooden hill was my mum's name for them, but more often just stairs, ge' up dem sturrs.... jus' goin' up t'wooden 'ill
Lived here all my life, and I get laughed at at college when I talk about 'hurr' and 'thurr' and 'stickin keckle on forra brew' and I tell the others to stick their non-accringtonian accets where the 'sun don shine'.
Plus, book is like buck, same with look, luck, and cook, cuck.