paigle, pagle dial.
(ˈpeɪg(ə)l)
Also 6 pagyll, paggle, 8–9 pagil, (9 dial. paagle, paugle, peagle, pegle, peggle, peggall: see E.D.D.)
[In 16th c. pagyll, pagle, paggle, of uncertain origin; but cf. paggle v.
See many conjectures in N. & Q. 7th s. VII, VIII, 1883.]
A local name for the cowslip, Primula veris; sometimes including the Oxlip; also applied locally to some other flowers, as the buttercup.
| 1530 Palsgr. 250/2 Pagyll a cowsloppe. 1548 Turner Names Herbes (1881) 79 There are iij Verbascula... The fyrste is called in barbarus latin Arthritica, and in englishe a Primerose. The seconde is..Paralysis, and in englishe a Cowslip, or a Cowslap, or a Pagle. 1568 ― Herbal iii. 80 A Cowislip, and..an Oxislip..are both call [sic] in Cambridgeshyre Pagles. 1573 Tusser Husb. xlii. (1878) 95 Strowing herbes of all sortes..5. Cousleps and paggles. Ibid. xliii. 96, 25. Paggles, greene and yelow. 1597 Gerarde Herbal ii. cclx. §7. 637 Called for the most part Oxelips and Paigles. 1629 Parkinson Paradisi xxv. 247 In some countries they call them Paigles, or Palsieworts, or Petty Mulleins, which are called Cowslips in others. 1691 Ray S. & E.C. Words (E.D.S.), 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. 1866 Treas. Bot., Paigle, Pagle, or Peagle, Primula veris. |