pigwortn.
/ˈpɪɡwəːt/, U.S. /ˈpɪɡˌwərt/, /ˈpɪɡˌwɔrt/ rare.
A plant (not identified).In later (U.S.) use perhaps a variant of, or error for, pigweed n. or figwort (fig-wort n. b).
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pigweed1806
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xxviii. 73 Pigwort, woodbynd, birche, and such like, whereof they croppe the toppes.
1870 Harper's Mag. Dec. 87/2 [The names] chick-weed, pigwort, pickpocket, snap-dragon, Jack-in-the-pulpit, and the like, are at worst grotesque.
1992 M. Bishop Count Geiger's Blues 4 The discarded cylinders plummeted down through its waters... One of them..didn't reach the water. It lodged among a colony of pigwort and ferns.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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