单词 | paigle |
释义 | paiglen. Now English regional (chiefly eastern) and Welsh English (Pembrokeshire). The cowslip, Primula veris. Also: the oxlip (both the true oxlip, Primula elatior, and the false oxlip, P. × polyantha).In some districts where the cowslip is called paigle, the name cowslip itself denotes the oxlip. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > primrose and allied flowers > cowslip cowslipc1000 primerolea1350 herb Peter?a1450 Peter?a1450 paigle?c1450 St. Peter's wort1526 pigle1570 jackanapes on horseback1597 palsywort1597 galligaskin1629 passwort1671 fairy cups1855 ?c1450 in G. Müller Aus Mittelengl. Medizintexten (1929) 75 (MED) Tak kousloppes, þat is plaggis [read pagglis], and primerose-leues, and sauge-leuys, and leuys of þe red nettles, and mustard-sed, and stamp all þese to-gedere. 1526 Grete Herball ccxii. sig. Mvi/2 (heading) De herba paralisi. Cowslyp or pagle. 1568 W. Turner Herbal iii. 80 A Cowislip, and..an Oxislip..are both call [sic] in Cambridgeshyre Pagles. 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole xxv. 247 In some countries they call them Paigles, or Palsieworts, or Petty Mulleins, which are called Cowslips in others. 1650 S. Sheppard Amandus & Sophronia v. 125 The Primrose, Lilly, Calaminth are here, The Violet, Paunsy, Pagle, and Kings-Speare. 1691 J. Ray S. & E. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 109 A Paigle..is of use in Essex, Middlesex, Suffolk, for a Cowslip: Cowslip with us signifying what is elsewhere called an Oxslip. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 321 Pagils or Paigles, Primula. 1785 S. Jackson Misc. I. ii. 123 The fillies chiefly choose to eat The primrose, pagle, violet. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 836/1 Paigle, pagle, or peagle, Primula veris. 1892 Littell's Living Age 6 Feb. 358/2 It is about twenty years since the whorled primrose of Japan was introduced... Now it may be seen sowing itself in the borders with the freedom of an English ‘paigle.’ 1922 E. Blunden Shepherd 25 Their garlands are of peagles that flaunt their yellow heads. 1974 J. Aiken Midnight is Place ix. 257 The man who had assisted them was commanded by his mother to fetch down the paigle cordial. 1997 Countryman Apr.–May 52 The cowslip gives no encouragement either; we still know them as ‘paigles’ and local wisdom suggests that you never get warm settled weather until the ‘paigles are finished’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?c1450 |
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