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prinkle

/ˈpɹɪŋkl̩/

prinkle is the alternative form of pringle.

Meaning of pringle

Verb

pringle (third-person singular simple present pringles, present participle pringling, simple past and past participle pringled)

  1. (intransitive) To prickle or tingle.
    • My word, my skin pringled all over as I listened to him, and I would gladly have changed my position for that of the first man in the steepest and narrowest breach that ever swallowed up a storming party.1894, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

See all 6 meanings of pringle

Forms of prinkle

third-person singular presentprinkles
present participleprinkling
past participleprinkled
pastprinkled

Words that rhyme with prinkle

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Questions about prinkle

What is prinkle the alternative form of?
Prinkle is the alternative form of pringle.
How do you pronounce prinkle?
Prinkle is pronounced /ˈpɹɪŋkl̩/.

Words near prinkle in the dictionary

  1. prinker
  2. prinkers
  3. Prinkey
  4. Prinkeys
  5. prinking
  6. prinkle
  7. prinkled
  8. prinkles
  9. prinkling
  10. prinks
  11. prinned

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prinkle (page history and authors); pringle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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