† bigoldn.
Obsolete. rare.
The corn marigold, Chrysanthemum segetum. Cf. gold n.2
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goldOE
buddle?a1350
great daisya1400
white bottlea1400
bigolda1500
maudlin-wort1552
chrysanthemum1578
ox-eyea1637
whiteweed1642
ox-eye daisy1731
moonflower1787
ox-daisy1813
ox-eyed daisy1817
pyrethrum1837
horse-gowan1842
marguerite1847
maudlin daisy1855
moon daisy1855
pompom1861
moon-penny1866
crown daisy1875
Korean chrysanthemum1877
Paris daisy1882
mum1891
Shasta daisy1901
chrysanth1920
penny-daisy1920
Korean1938
Nippon daisy1939
a1500 (?a1450) Treat. Gardening l. 170 in Archaeologia (1894) 54 166 Mouseer' egri moyne honysoke & bygull Centory horsel adderstong' & bygull.
1597 J. Gerard Herball App. Bigold, that is Chrysanthemum segetum.
1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants 21 Bigold, tinsel, false gold, applied to a plant that is not the genuine Golde.
1882–3 F. E. Hulme Familiar Wild Flowers IV. 78 A local name for the plant [sc. the corn marigold] is the bigold; which Prior, in his excellent work on the popular names of British plants, tells us signifies tinsel or false gold.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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