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paigle, pagle dial.|ˈpeɪg(ə)l|
Also 6 pagyll, paggle, 8–9 pagil, (9 dial. paagle, paugle, peagle, pegle, peggle, peggall: see E.D.D.)
[In 16th c. pagyll, pagle, paggle, of uncertain origin; but cf. paggle v.
See many conjectures in N. & Q. 7th s. VII, VIII, 1883.]
A local name for the cowslip, Primula veris; sometimes including the Oxlip; also applied locally to some other flowers, as the buttercup.
1530Palsgr. 250/2 Pagyll a cowsloppe. 1548Turner Names Herbes (1881) 79 There are iij Verbascula... The fyrste is called in barbarus latin Arthritica, and in englishe a Primerose. The seconde is..Paralysis, and in englishe a Cowslip, or a Cowslap, or a Pagle. 1568― Herbal iii. 80 A Cowislip, and..an Oxislip..are both call [sic] in Cambridgeshyre Pagles. 1573Tusser Husb. xlii. (1878) 95 Strowing herbes of all sortes..5. Cousleps and paggles. Ibid. xliii. 96, 25. Paggles, greene and yelow. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cclx. §7. 637 Called for the most part Oxelips and Paigles. 1629Parkinson Paradisi xxv. 247 In some countries they call them Paigles, or Palsieworts, or Petty Mulleins, which are called Cowslips in others. 1691Ray S. & E.C. Words (E.D.S.), Paigle..is of use in Essex, Middlesex, Suffolk, for a cowslip: cowslip with us signifying what is elsewhere called an oxslip. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 321 Pagils or Paigles, Primula. 1866Treas. Bot., Paigle, Pagle, or Peagle, Primula veris. |