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▪ I. † po, poo, n.1 Obs.
Forms: α. 1 páuua, páwa, pawe, 5 paa, pae. β. 4–5 po, 4–6 poo.
[OE. páwa (pauua) = OLG. *pâwo (MLG. pâwe, LG. pau, Da. paa), OHG. phâwo (MHG. pfâwe, Ger. pfau), both wk. m.; WGer. a. L. pāvo peacock. Thence (through pá(w)a, pa(we), ME. north. paa, pa-, midl. pô, poo (cf. OHG. phâo, MHG. pfâ). OE. had also the form péa from *pau (see Sievers, ed. 3, §111 A. 2), whence ME. pê- in pêcock, pêhenne: see peacock, etc.]
A peacock.
† feathered with po, i.e. with peacock's feathers.
αa700Epinal Gloss. (O.E.T.) 826 Pavo, pauua. c1000ælfric Gram. ix. (Z.) 35 Pauo, pawa. c1000― Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 131/9 Pauo, pauus, pawe. c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 196 Fuᵹlas þa þe heard flæsc habbað, pawa swan æned. a1400–50Alexander 4983 Þar bade a brid on a boghe..Was of a port of a paa. 14..in Langtoft's Chron. (Rolls) II. App. iv. 452, I beheld that litel man.., His berd was syde ay large span, and glided als the fethere of pae.
βa1307Sat. Consistory Courts in Pol. Songs (Camden) 159 A pruest proud ase a po, Seþþe weddeþ us bo. 1382Wyclif 2 Chron. ix. 21 Thei brouȝten thennus gold, and syluer, and yuer, and apis, and poos [1388 pokokis, v.r. pekokis]. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 6961 With bowe and arwe fedred with po, He wroght amonges hem mechel wo. c1500Three Kings' Sons 136 Aftir thies wordes, was brought yn a Poo by ij. gentilwomen.
b. attrib. and Comb.
a1300–1520 Pakoc, pacok, poucok, pocok, etc. [see peacock n. 1 β and γ]. c1350Nominale Gall.-Angl. 782 (E.E.T.S.), Storke pecok and pohenne. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xii. 257 By þe po feet is vnderstonde..fals frendes.
▪ II. † po, n.2 Obs.
[Origin obscure.]
(See quot. 1838.)
1678Butler Hud. iii. i. 1395 This is some Pettifogging Fiend,..That undertakes to understand, And juggles at the second hand; And now would pass for Spirit Po, And all mens dark Concerns foreknow. [1838Southey Doctor cxxxix. V. 25 One Mr. Duke, a busy fanatic, in Devonshire in Charles II.'s days, whom old Sir Edward Seymour used to call Spirit Po, that said Po being a petit diable, a small devil that was presto at every Conjuror's nod.]
▪ III. po, n.3 colloq.|pəʊ|
Pl. poes, pos.
[ad. Fr. pot (de chambre).]
A chamber-pot. Also attrib. and Comb.
1880Longmuir & Donaldson Jamieson's Etym. Dict. Sc. Lang. (rev. ed.) III. 517/2 Po, s, a matula or urinal. 1911A. Warrack Scots Dial. Dict. 420/1 Po, n., a chamber⁓pot. 1937Partridge Dict. Slang 643/1 Po, a chamber-pot... Ex the pronunciation of pot in Fr. pot de chambre. 1951W. Sansom Face of Innocence iv. 56 ‘In bloody pos.’ ‘Pose?’ ‘Under-the-beds. The amusing ones, roses and all get out. Bloody jerries.’
1950G. Wilson Brave Company (1951) xi. 201 There was a great white china po hanging on the wall near the roof. 1961C. Willock Death in Covert i. 14 Do you make plastic poes? 1966P. O'Donnell Sabre-Tooth iv. 68 On her head was a po⁓shaped cloche hat. 1970Daily Tel. 17 Oct. 6/6 And the hats—those ‘po’ creations had to be seen to be believed! 1974Punch 27 Mar. 510/1, I kneelin' by de bed..peein' in de smart Victorian po.
▪ IV. po
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