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
   • Abd el Kader called them whoresons, ingle's accidents, sons of a bitch, profiteering cuckolds and pimps, jetting his insults broadcast to the roomfull.1926, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Verb

ingle (third-person singular simple present ingles, present participle ingling, simple past and past participle ingled)

1. (obsolete) To cajole or coax; to wheedle.
   • Hugge it, ingle it, kiſſe it, and cull it, now thou haſt it, […]1599, [Thomas] Nashe, “[The Epistle Dedicatorie]”, in Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   butter up, inveigle, sweet-talk, blandander, blandish, cajole, sweeten, fast-talk, canoodle, carny

Proper noun capitalized: Ingle

IPA/ˈɪŋɡl̩/

Ingle

1. A surname.