PAGGLEVERB
1. to bulge, to swell out as a bag; to hang loosely, to dangle ...c1590 obs. 2. to mend, to patch ...Bk1905 Eng. dial. ETYMOLOGY unknown FIRST DOCUMENTED USE c1590 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...With strouting dugs that paggle to the ground, Shall serve thy dairy, if thou wed with me." From: Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay By: Robert Greene, c1590 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 • A Supplementary English Glossary, O. Davies, T. Lewis, 1881 • The Encyclopaedic Dictionary, Robert Hunter, 1879-1888 • A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words, Walter W. Skeat, 1914
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