Punies

Origin

Probably from puny ("weak")

Full definition of punies

Noun

1. (US, dialect, Appalachia) Sickness, weakness.
• 1980, w, The run for the Elbertas, "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."
• 2003, Mark O'Brien, How I became a human being: a disabled man's quest for independence, 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.
• 2008, Carolyn Jourdan, Heart in the Right Place, “I brung my boy. He's got the punies and I want the doc to take a look at him.”----