pijoun - Middle English Compendium

Middle English Dictionary Entry

pijǒun n.

Forms	pijǒun n. Also pijon, -gion, -geon, -geoun, -gin, -gon, -goun, -gun, -chon, pejoun, -jon, peion, -jun, -geon, -gion, -gen, -gon(ne.
Etymology	OF pijon, pig(e)on.

(a) A dove or pigeon; (b) a young dove or pigeon, a squab; (c) a pigeon or squab [last quot.] as food; (d) as surname.

(1375) Award Blount in ORS 7204 : Thomas Blont..hath indowed Dame Isabell..with..the thridde pejone of the grete dovehouse..and the thridde part of the ffyssh Takyn in the bowkys at the myll.
c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)9a : Take þe sede of brome..and þe ynneter pithe of pichonis geserys.
a1450 Form Excom.(1) (Cld A.2)65 : Schal tyþe be payud..of coltus & caluus & pyggus, of gesse, off pychonus.
c1450(?a1422) Lydg.LOL (Dur-U Cosin V.2.16)6.45 : A pygeon..She shuld eke offre as for her trespase.
c1450(?a1422) Lydg.LOL (Dur-U Cosin V.2.16)6.54 : If she had..no lambe..Then shulde she take for her oblacion Two turtle doves..Or two pegyons.
a1475 Hrl.Bk.Hawking in Studia Neoph.16 (Hrl 2340)7 : If the frounce be wox as grete as a note, then þere is a grub þerin as it were þe mawe of a pigion.
a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)350/20 : They sholde receyue all tythys of peiuns of duffe-howsys Imade or to be made in the towne of myldecumbe.
a1500(?a1400) SLChrist (Hrl 3909)2573 : Mary with hert fre sacrifise as this day diȝt A turtur bridde or pigones two.

a1400 Alphita (SeldArch B.35)144 : Pip[i]ones sunt pulli columbarum..anglice, pyiones.
a1425 Roy.17.C.17 Nominale (Roy 17.C.17)662/8 : Pugio: pejon.
(1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)396 : Pyione, yonge dove: Columbella.
(?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)6.145 : The mylk is crodded now to chese With..that pellet that closith..The chike or pyiouncrawe [L pullorum ventribus.]
c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)86b/a : Recipe a culuer peioun and slitte him al quyk and biclippe þe wounde þerinne.
?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)95a : A pyion: pipio.

(a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.29 : Peions ystewed. Take peions and stop hem with garlec..and do hem in an erthen pot.
(1423-4) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.179/1217 : The costes of þe same dyner..Item, for iiij dosen of peions.
?c1425 Arun.Cook.Recipes (Arun 334)433 : Pejons Stewet. Take pejouns..do hom in a potte..and put therto gode brothe.
a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)58 : Pyionys.
a1450 Terms Assoc.(1) (Rwl D.328)604 : Longing for keruers..a pegeone y thyed.
?a1450 Ashm.Cook.Bk.(Ashm 1439)109 : Mynce þe rostid peiouns and cast the sauce þer-on.
c1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(2) (Hrl 4016)68 : Peions rosted.
(1467) Acc.Howard in RC 57399 : My mastyr..spent..in..pegones xj s. viij d.
(1474) Stonor144 : The second course..lambe, pigge, vele, peiouns rosted, baken rabettes.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.14 : Take peions and hew hom in morselle smalle.
a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)438 : Of quayle..pygeoun, swalow, thrusche, osulle ye not forgete.
a1475 Terms Assoc.(1) (Brog 2.1)60 : A pygyne ithyide.
c1475 Gregory's Chron.(Eg 1995)80 : That yere was grete plenty of vytayle, and a quarter whete was at ij s..and vj pejonys for a peny.
a1500 I shall you tell a full (Vit D.12)p.253 : Pygge, gosse..A pasti of pegenys.
a1500(a1450) Ashmole SSecr.(Ashm 396)58/26 : Turne to hote metes..as coluer peions [Hisp.: dove birdis], moton, and rosted metes.

c1475 Eg.Terms Carver in Hodgkin Proper Terms (Eg 1995)56 : Woodecocke, Pegonne: Alle thes benne j schrydde.

Note: New spelling, sense (c). Spelling added to form section.

a1486 Sln.Bk.Hawking (Sln 3488)141 : For thou shalt fynde within him, as thoughit were the maw of a peion, and gader that oute and litte hit And then thou shalt finde within that a fowle mater.

Note: New spelling, sense (a). Spelling added to form section.