pingle

English

Etymology 1

Perhaps from pin (“to impound”).

Noun

pingle (plural pingles)

  1. (obsolete, Britain, dialectal) A small piece of enclosed ground.

Verb

pingle (third-person singular simple present pingles, present participle pingling, simple past and past participle pingled)

  1. (intransitive, Britain, dialectal) To eat with a feeble appetite.
  2. (intransitive, Britain, dialectal) To dawdle.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pingle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈpɪŋɡlɛ]
  • Rhymes: -ɡlɛ, -ɪŋɡlɛ
  • Hyphenation: pin‧g‧le

Noun

pingle

  1. vocative singular of pingl
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