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ingles

ingles is the plural 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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Questions about ingles

What is ingles the plural of?
Ingles is the plural of ingle.

Words near ingles in the dictionary

  1. Inglefield clip
  2. Inglefield clips
  3. Inglefields
  4. inglenook
  5. inglenooks
  6. ingles
  7. Inglese
  8. Ingleses
  9. ingleside
  10. Ingleston
  11. Ingleton

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