"punies" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Probably from puny (“weak”).",
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      "expansion": "punies pl (plural only)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Appalachian English",
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        },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1980, James Still, The run for the Elbertas, page 35",
          "text": "\"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.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Mark O'Brien with Gillian Kendall, How I became a human being: a disabled man's quest for independence, page 152",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Carolyn Jourdan, Heart in the Right Place, page 222",
          "text": "“I brung my boy. He's got the punies and I want the doc to take a look at him.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Sickness, weakness."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "Sickness",
          "sickness"
        ],
        [
          "weakness",
          "weakness"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, dialect, Appalachia) Sickness, weakness."
      ],
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        "Appalachia",
        "US",
        "dialectal",
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "punies"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Probably from puny (“weak”).",
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      "expansion": "punies pl (plural only)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "Appalachian English",
        "English dialectal terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English pluralia tantum",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 4 entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1980, James Still, The run for the Elbertas, page 35",
          "text": "\"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.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Mark O'Brien with Gillian Kendall, How I became a human being: a disabled man's quest for independence, page 152",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Carolyn Jourdan, Heart in the Right Place, page 222",
          "text": "“I brung my boy. He's got the punies and I want the doc to take a look at him.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Sickness, weakness."
      ],
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        [
          "Sickness",
          "sickness"
        ],
        [
          "weakness",
          "weakness"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, dialect, Appalachia) Sickness, weakness."
      ],
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        "dialectal",
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "punies"
}