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Etymology
From Middle English pouste, from Anglo-Norman pousté and Old French posté, poesté, from Latin potestās, potestāt-.
Pronunciation
Noun
poustee
- power
1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 10, page 88:T' brek up ee bathès h' had na poustee;- To break up the goal they had not power;
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 62