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▪ I. piggle, n. dial.|ˈpɪg(ə)l|
[f. next.]
(See quot. 1889.)
1889Cent. Dict., Piggle.., a many-pronged hook, with a handle like that of a hoe, used in digging potatoes, and in mixing various materials, as clay, mortar, compost, etc. 1922C. Sidgwick Victorian xxxvii. 278 Impident toad! Comes up to me and sez we aren't agoin' to build this hedge with a foundation! Oh! aren't we? sez I. You get to yer work, my lad, and do a bit with that piggle.
▪ II. ˈpiggle, v. dial.
[Origin obscure: cf. piddle v. 1.]
a. trans. To uproot; to pick at, to pick out.
b. intr. To trifle or toy with. So ˈpiggling ppl. a., petty, paltry, niggling.
1847J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II. 622/2 Piggle, to root up potatoes with the hand. 1877F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness 107/1 Piggle.., to pick out with a pointed instrument. 1911D. H. Lawrence White Peacock ii. iii. 265 Don't be piggling and mean and Grundyish. 1923― Kangaroo i. 7 Awful piggling suburban place. Ibid. iii. 40, I can't piggle with those draughtsmen dodges. 1976Scollins & Titford Ey up, mi Duck! I. 59 Piggle, to work away at something with the fingers. A certain spreader of acne. |