pusley

This idea seems to gain support also from the fact that certain Eastern peoples, whom modern civilization declares to have uneducated tastes, still employ many herbs which have dropped by the wayside of progress, or like the caraway and the redoubtable "pusley," an anciently popular potherb, are but known in western lands as troublesome weeds.

Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains

It clung to the very soil, like "pusley" in a garden.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

He would feed pigs; pulled "pusley" out of the garden for them "and them pigs loved it mighty well".

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives Work Projects Administration

Fame like Burbank's and fortune awaits the one who is a good self-advertiser and can find the use of the poetic daisies, goldenrod, and thistle, the all-pervading "pusley," and such other vegetable vermin.

Three Acres and Liberty Bolton Hall 1896

Perhaps its close relation to the "pusley," most hated of weeds, makes us eye it askance.

Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

Purslane -- commonly called "pusley," and which has given rise to the saying, "as mean as pusley" -- of course is not American.

The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879

The "pusley" would have strangled the strawberry; the upright corn, which has now ears to hear the guilty beating of the hearts of the children who steal the raspberries, would have been dragged to the earth by the wandering bean; the snake-grass would have left no place for the potatoes under ground; and the tomatoes would have been swamped by the lusty weeds.

My Summer in a Garden Charles Dudley Warner 1864

I wish there was more demand in our city markets for "pusley" as a salad.

My Summer in a Garden Charles Dudley Warner 1864

About "pusley" the guide had no theory and no hope.

My Summer in a Garden Charles Dudley Warner 1864

He said that I was right in saying that "pusley" was the natural food of the Chinaman, and that where the "pusley" was, there would the Chinaman be also.

My Summer in a Garden Charles Dudley Warner 1864