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Scots
Etymology
From Middle English tagilen, probably of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse þǫngull, þang (“tangle; seaweed”); compare dialectal Swedish taggla.
Pronunciation
Verb
taigle (third-person singular simple present taigles, present participle taiglin, simple past taiglt, past participle taiglt)
- to entangle
1876, David Gilmour, Paisley Weavers of Other Days:I wud abeen here in time, but I gaed roon tae speer hoo Mary Swan's son was, an' I was taiglt.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1926, Hugh MacDiarmid, A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle:And syne it's like a wab in which the warld / Squats like a spider, quhile the mune and me / Are taigled in an endless corner o't / Tyauvin' fecklessly...- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1983, William Laughton Lorimer, trans. Bible, Luke I:
Aa this while the fowk wis waitin on Zacharie, ferliein what coud be taiglin him sae lang intil the sanctuarie [...].- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- to muddle; confuse
- to delay, tarry
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