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praiseach|prəˈʃax| Also praisseagh, prashack, prashagh, prashoge, prassia. [Ir., f. L. brassica cabbage.] a. A porridge made from oatmeal, sometimes flavoured with vegetables. Also fig., a mess, a collection of small pieces.
1698J. Dunton Let. in E. Maclysaght Irish Life in 17th Cent. (1969) 330 He chose rather to stay at home with Prashagh and Potatoes than hazard himself in France where he knew not that any such food grew. 1935D. Piatt Dialect in East & Mid-Leinster 17/1 Praiseach... Secondary meaning: ‘To make p. of a thing.’ i.e., break in small pieces. 1969C. Carfax Silence with Voices viii. 51 Would I jam me wagon in the middle of a main road and wait to be made into prashoge? b. The charlock, Brassica arvensis, or a related wild plant of the cabbage family.
1727C. Threlkeld Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum s.v. Brassica, This is Praisseagh buigh in Irish, and grows plentifully in corn fields. 1859Ulster Jrnl. Archaeol. VII. 278 In former times, when cabbages were not generally cultivated in Ireland, the wild kail (called in Irish Praiseach), was often made use of as a kitchen vegetable. 1880T. McGrath Pictures from Ireland xi. 113 The growing oat crop struggles with the perennial thistle, dock, and prassia. 1904N. Colgan Flora Co. Dublin 22 B[rassica] Sinapis... Prashack. Yellow Weed. Charlock. 1943D. A. Webb Irish Flora 14 B[rassica] arvensis... Charlock, Praiseach... Tilled fields and waste places; common. |