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engle

/ˈɛŋɡəl/

engle is the alternative spelling of ingle.

Meaning of ingle

Noun (1)

ingle (plural ingles)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, obsolete) An open fireplace.
    • Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely, / Wi' reaming swats, that drank divinely1790, Robert Burns, Tam O'Shanter

Noun (2)

ingle (plural ingles)

  1. A catamite; a male lover
    • What? shall I have my sonne a stager now? an enghle for players?1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I, scene i

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Proper noun capitalized: Engle

Engle

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Sierra County, New Mexico.
  3. An unincorporated community in Fayette County, Texas.
  4. An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, West Virginia.
  5. (historical) Synonym of Angle (“member of the tribe of Angles”).
    • The Engle or English man absorbed the Saxon, absorbed the Jute, but himself remained English.1907, Joseph Pomeroy Widney, The Old World, page 255
    Synonyms:
    Angle

Synonyms of engle

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Forms of engle

Noun
pluralengles
Verb
third-person singular presentengles
present participleengling
past participleengled
pastengled

Questions about engle

What does engle mean?
Engle means a surname.
What is engle the alternative spelling of?
Engle is the alternative spelling of ingle.
What part of speech is engle?
Engle is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce engle?
Engle is pronounced /ˈɛŋɡəl/.

Words near engle in the dictionary

  1. England and Wales
  2. Englande
  3. Englander
  4. Englanders
  5. Englands
  6. engle
  7. Englebert
  8. Engleberts
  9. Englee
  10. Englefield
  11. Englefields

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Adapted from Wiktionary: engle (page history and authors); Engle (page history and authors); ingle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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