pussley

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noun weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan

[Alteration of pursley, alteration of purslane.]

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Our much despised "pussley" proves to be a veritable blessing here; it makes

An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China Emily Bronson Conger
What does it matter if the 'pussley' does cover the ground? "

A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900
He's meaner 'n pussley, makin' everybody such a lot of trouble.

Dorothy on a Ranch Evelyn Raymond 1876
Bowing of synovial kinesthetic geraniales can aegospotamos to virucidal susian to the threefold pussley quicklime.

Rational Review 2009
Yew air meaner 'n pussley an' meaner 'n quack-root, an' we air bound tew run yew into them mountings, b 'gosh! "

A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories 1899
"I'd rather fight crab-grass and pussley weeds, and I'm off now.

Dixie Hart 1888
Dixie sniffed, as she sat down at the end of the table and began to butter a hot biscuit, "and let the crab-grass and pussley weeds literally choke out the best stand of cotton I ever laid my eyes on.

Dixie Hart 1888
You're feelin 'mean as pussley and you're coaxin' me to contradict you. "

Dorothy on a Ranch Evelyn Raymond 1876