A Suffolk punch. A short, thick-set cart-horse.
“I did hear them call their child Punch, which pleased me mightily, that word having become a word of common use for everything that is thick and short.”—Pepys’s Diary.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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