pingling

Verb

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

1. (UK, dialectal, intransitive) 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
2. (UK, dialectal, intransitive) 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
3. (intransitive) 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
4. (transitive) 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
5. 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
6. 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

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