puckerow

English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowing from Hindustani پکڑو / पकड़ो (pakṛo, “catch [it]!”).

Verb edit

puckerow (third-person singular simple present puckerows, present participle puckerowing, simple past and past participle puckerowed)

(obsolete, British India, slang, transitive) To seize; to take hold of.

References edit

John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary