† ˈpegrall, a. Sc. Obs.
Also peggrell, pygrall.
[Origin unascertained.]
Petty, paltry, trifling.
| 1535 Lyndesay Satyre 2653 Ane peggrell theif that steillis ane kow. 1555 Satir. Poems Reform. xxxvi. 126 That fals and degenerat seid Of Douglassis..That of his bluide resavit þe pygrall pryce. 1567 Ibid. iii. 121, I did reid,..How Acan tuik the excommunicat guid:..Gif God was wraith at ane small pegrall stouth [etc.]. |