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pedgill

pedgill verb: to work hard and painstakingly (at something); to plod or persevere.

Verb

pedgill (third-person singular simple present pedgills, present participle pedgilling, simple past and past participle pedgilled)

  1. (Midlands, UK, rare) To work hard and painstakingly (at something); to plod or persevere.
    • But at drawing, his hand swung naturally in big, bold lines, rather lax, so that it was cruel for him to pedgill away at the lace designing, working from the tiny squares of paper, counting and plotting and niggling.1915, DH Lawrence, The Rainbow, Vintage, published 2011, page 11

Forms of pedgill

third-person singular presentpedgills
present participlepedgilling
past participlepedgilled
pastpedgilled

Origin of pedgill

Origin uncertain. Perhaps an alteration of peggle.

Questions about pedgill

What does pedgill mean?
Pedgill means to work hard and painstakingly (at something); to plod or persevere.
What part of speech is pedgill?
Pedgill is a verb.
What is the past tense of pedgill?
The past tense of pedgill is pedgilled.

Words near pedgill in the dictionary

  1. pedetentous
  2. pedetentously
  3. pedetic
  4. pedetid
  5. pedetids
  6. pedgill
  7. pedgilled
  8. pedgilling
  9. pedgills
  10. pedha
  11. pedhas

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