punies

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

American usage

""Be-dabs, if the whole gin-works hain't got the punies. Even the mare tuck a spell today. She wouldn't eat corn nor shuck.""
"Other days, when I tried to get up despite feeling weak, she would inform me that I had a case of "the punies" and ought to stay in the tank."
"“I brung my boy. He's got the punies and I want the doc to take a look at him.”"

Probably from puny (“weak”).

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