pingle
pingle noun: a small piece of enclosed ground.
Noun (1)
pingle (plural pingles)
- A small piece of enclosed ground.
- Matthew Smith, by his will, bearing date 20th February 1713, left two alms-houses which he had built, and four closes of land, part freehold and part copyhold, lying in the Hoppings, near Hopping-hill, in the liberty of Belper, containing, by estimation, 13 acres: and a pingle, containing half an...1833, Stephen Glover, Thomas Noble, The History, Gazetteer, and Directory of the County of Derby, page 104
- In 1619, John Chipsey and his wife Ellen surrendered lands in Scotter at le Clowehole," and "a pingle at the woodside," Manor Records, sub anno.1881, Notes and Queries, page 105
Verb (1)
pingle (third-person singular simple present pingles, present participle pingling, simple past and past participle pingled)
- To eat with a feeble appetite.
- all this while when we haue beene at the Lords spirituall feasts, wee haue but pingled, and neuer made a good meale.1616, Thomas Stoughton, Two Profitable Treatises, page 188
- The Liberal and Conservative rivals of the Socialist whole hoggers may nibble at Socialism as John Browdie pingled with the crust of the Yorkshire pie, but dry nurse and coddle the electors as they will, neither Free Traders nor Tariff Reformers can approach the large, divine, and comfortable creed...1911, Arnold White, The Views of 'Vanoc,': An Englishman's Outlook, page 319
- To dawdle.
- He pingled his wey tae the first o the moontain's three fause peaks an wis hauf-roads tae the second when a voice rang oot across the hills like a thunder plump.2020, Matthew Fitt, But n Ben A-Go-Go
- To struggle; to work with great effort.
- Those that but now did put their labo'ring hands Unto thy Plough, have rid more work away Then I that here have pingled many a day.1661, Nathanael Eaton, De Fastis Anglicis, sive Calendarium Sacrum. The Holy Calendar, page 66
- Both of us have pingled at our seams for forty year good.1852, Margaret Oliphant, “Annie Orme”, in Littell's Living Age, volume 35, page 360
- to bother or create work for.
- and howbeit all the Nobillmen and Gentillmen, Bisschoppis, Commissiouneries, and thair adherentis, voitit to the Bisschop Law, yit a number of the best of the Ministerie pingled them; so that , iff they had not bein devydit becaus of Mr Patrick Simpsoune's disseas and waiknes, it wes thought they...1842, James Melville, Robert Pitcairn, The Autobiography and Diary of Mr. James Melvill, page 755
- Ta Tighearnach (i.e., the Chief) did not like ta Sassenach Duinhé-wassel to be pingled wi' mickle speaking, as she was na' tat weel.1883, Walter Scott, Waverly, page 179
- To struggle or squabble.
- pingled and struggled with the Spaniardes for breade and other cates, and often wi mette with them in the Townes, Willages, open fields, and skirmished at ý very skirts of their cape, procuring the to fight.1976, Thomas Churchyard, A Description of the Warres in Flaunders, page 43
- To spoil
- […] but those on the south side, getting both sun and traffic fumes from Pall Mall, pingled1988, Ivy Journal - Volumes 14-18, page 36
- And, while he handles the plump rattling grain, Declares it pingled, only fit for mice!2020, John Goodridge, Nineteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets
Noun (2)
pingle
- An onerous and difficult task; a hardship.
- let them garr their wives; more awkward and violent; a pingle of trifles; a counterscarse of examples; an Empericall Quack-saluer;1612, Robert Persons, A discussion of the Answere of M. William Barlow , D. of Diuinity, to the Booke intituled: The Iudgment of a Catholike Englishman liuing in banishment for his Religion &c.
- Judgment's a pingle: Blindeman's Buff's plaid there. Sin playes at Coursey-Park within my Minde;1725, Edward Taylor, Preparatory Meditations
Noun (3)
pingle (plural pingles)
- A small pot with a lid.
- You want a pingle, lassie, weel and guid—'Tis thretty pennies—pit it whar it stood!1821 January, “The Humours of a Village Fair”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 8, page 429
- When he brained a man with a pingle spike Or plastered a seaman flat, We should 'a' been blowed, but we all of us knowed That he didn't mean nothin' by that.1904, Wallace Irwin, Nautical Lays of a Landsman, page 97
Verb (2)
pingle (third-person singular simple present pingles, present participle pingling, simple past and past participle pingled)
- To make a light, ringing, percussive sound.
- The milk hissed and pingled - or Phil's tongue hissed and pingled.1930, The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women, page 493
- I recall that right after dinner Sid sat at the battered upright piano there in the dining room and pingled out a few bars of something rather classical, like Schubert's song of love.1991, Raymond Z. Gallun, Jeffrey M. Elliot, Paul David Seldis, Starclimber: The Literary Adventures and Autobiography of Raymond Z. Gallun, page 89
Proper noun capitalized: Pingle
Pingle (plural Pingles)
- A surname.
Examples of pingle in a sentence
- This was the case with a pingle wall erected on the waste c. 1750 by the then owner of the Throckmorton—Murcott—Wheeler—Smith holding.1914, Sydenham Henry Augustus Hervey, Ladbroke and Its Owners, page 272:
- Martyn Browne, Esq., paid a fat turkey, or two shillings, in rent for a 'pingle'—a small piece of enclosed land—there.2014, Caitlin Green, The Streets of Louth, page 279:
- This man complained of burning pains in the stomach, he pingled his food.1952, Homoeopathic World - Volume 87, page 121:
- "It was for the laddie I pingled and scarted it together," she soliloquized aloud,1896, P. Anderson Graham, “The Bondager”, in The Living Age, volume 10, page 341:
Forms of pingle
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pingles |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | pingles |
| present participle | pingling |
| past participle | pingled |
| past | pingled |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Pingles |
Origin of pingle
Perhaps from pin (“to impound”).
Onomatopoeic
Two main origins: * Americanized spelling of German Pingel. * Borrowed from Marathi पिंगळे (piṅgḷe). This surname is mostly found in Maharashtra.
Words that rhyme with pingle
Questions about pingle
- What does pingle mean?
- Pingle means a small piece of enclosed ground.
- How do you use pingle in a sentence?
- This was the case with a pingle wall erected on the waste c. 1750 by the then owner of the Throckmorton—Murcott—Wheeler—Smith holding.
- What part of speech is pingle?
- Pingle can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of pingle?
- The plural of pingle is pingles.
Words near pingle in the dictionary
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