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单词 greygle
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greyglen.

Brit. /ˈɡrɛɡl/, U.S. /ˈɡrɛɡ(ə)l/
Forms: 1800s grægle, 1800s gregole, 1800s greygole, 1800s greygoyle, 1800s– graegle, 1800s– greggle, 1800s– greygle, 1800s– griggle.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymon: grey adj.
Etymology: Origin uncertain. The first element apparently shows grey adj.The form grægle probably shows a consciously archaic spelling, assuming an origin as a derivative of grey adj.
English regional (south-western). Now chiefly historical.
Any of several wild flowers; spec. the bluebell or wild hyacinth, Hyacinthoides non-scripta. Also gramfer greygle. Chiefly in plural.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > bellflowers
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gauntlet1578
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throatwort1578
lady's looking glass1597
mariet1597
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peach-bells1597
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uvula-wort1597
Venus looking-glass1597
campanula1664
Spanish bell1664
corn-violet1665
rampion1688
Venus' glass1728
harebell1767
heath-bell1805
witch bell1808
slipperwort1813
meadow-bell1827
greygle1844
platycodon1844
lady's thimble1853
kikyo1884
witches' bells1884
balloon flower1901
fairy thimble1914
mountain bell1923
1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. 267 An' beds o' grēgoles, thick an' gây, Did dick the groun' in yerly Mây.
1847 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. (ed. 2) 53 The wood-screen'd grægle's bell.
1850 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Prov. Words. (ed. 2) 1. Greygole, the bluebell.
1869 Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 4 345 When we came to some blue-bell squills (Scilla nutans)..I asked him [sc. a Dorset boy] what their name was. Without any hesitation he answered..‘Gramfer greygles’.
1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge I. xx. 246 She grew to talk of ‘greggles’ as ‘wild hyacinths’.
1920 W. E. Brenchley Weeds of Farm Land xiii. 218 (gloss.) Orchis mascula,..gramfer-greygles, greygles.
2006 C. Erickson Last Wife Henry VIII xv. 114 I walked past tables where gooseberry tarts were spread out for sale, along with crisp late apples and bunches of dried blue graegles.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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