taigle

Scots

Alternative forms

• taigel, teagle, teigle, taiggle, taggle

Etymology

From Middle English tagilen, probably of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse þǫngull, þang (“tangle; seaweed”); compare dialectal Swedish taggla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teɡl/

Verb

taigle (third-person singular simple present taigles, present participle taiglin, simple past taiglt, past participle taiglt)

1. 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)

2. to muddle; confuse
3. to delay, tarry

Derived terms

• taiglesome