pringle
pringle verb: to prickle or tingle.
Verb
pringle (third-person singular simple present pringles, present participle pringling, simple past and past participle pringled)
Proper noun capitalized: Pringle
Pringle
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Washington County, Georgia.
- A borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
- A town in Custer County, South Dakota.
Noun capitalized: Pringle
Pringle (plural Pringles)
- An individual potato snack of the Pringles brand.
- Prizant and Duchan found that some echoes were modified to serve the function of requests. For example, to the question "What do you want?" one child answered, "What do you want a Pringle."1984, Oliver Bloodstein, Speech pathology: an introduction
- We watched him for a few minutes as he explored the area and then I broke off a piece of a Pringle.2005, Shane A Bernskoetter, Surviving Twilight: A Soldier's Chronicle of Daily Life in Iraq
Forms of pringle
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | pringles |
| present participle | pringling |
| past participle | pringled |
| past | pringled |
| alternative form | prinkle |
| Noun | |
| plural | Pringles |
Origin of pringle
* (surname): Habitational, from a place near Stow Roxburghshire, formerly called Hop(p)ringle, from Middle English hop (“enclosed valley”) + a name of Old Norse origin composed of the byname Prjónn (“pin, peg”, cognate with English preen) + an unidentified second element. * (borough of Pennsylvania): Named in honor of Thomas Pringle. * (town in South Dakota): Started as a stage stop on the Sidney-Custer Trail, operated by Henry Pringle.
There are several theories: * Named after Mark Pringle, who filed a US Patent 2,286,644 titled “Method and Apparatus for Processing Potatoes” on 5 March 1937. Pringle’s work was cited by Procter & Gamble (the original seller of Pringles) in filing their own patent for improving the taste of dehydrated processed potatoes. * Two Procter advertising employees lived on Pringle Drive in Finneytown (north of Cincinnati, Ohio), and the name paired well with “potato chips”. * Procter & Gamble chose the name from a Cincinnati telephone book. * “Chosen out of a hat” to promote a family name appeal.
Words formed from pringle
Words that rhyme with pringle
Questions about pringle
- What does pringle mean?
- Pringle means to prickle or tingle.
- What part of speech is pringle?
- Pringle can be a verb, a proper noun or a noun.
- What is the past tense of pringle?
- The past tense of pringle is pringled.
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