pingle

See also: Pingle

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl

Etymology 1

Perhaps from pin (“to impound”).

Noun

pingle (plural pingles)

  1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A small piece of enclosed ground.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, UK, dialect) To eat with a feeble appetite.
  2. (intransitive, UK, dialect) To dawdle.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pingle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈpɪŋɡlɛ]
  • Rhymes: -ɡlɛ, -ɪŋɡlɛ
  • Hyphenation: pin‧g‧le

Noun

pingle

  1. vocative singular of pingl

Polish

Etymology

Plural of pingiel +‎ -e, itself from ping-pong, with a semantic shift of ball->eye->that which one wears on their eyes. For the first semantic shift, compare the shift from Proto-Slavic *glazъ to Russian глаз (glaz).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpiŋ.ɡlɛ/
  • Rhymes: -iŋɡlɛ
  • Syllabification: pin‧gle

Noun

pingle nvir

  1. (colloquial, humorous) glasses, specs
    Synonyms: binokle, bryle, cyngle, patrzałki, szkła

Declension
Declension of pingle
plural
nominative pingle
genitive pingli
dative pinglom
accusative pingle
instrumental pinglami
locative pinglach
vocative pingle

Derived terms
noun
  • pinglarz

References
  1. Adam Fałowski (2022) Słownik etymologiczny polszczyzny potocznej, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, →ISBN

Further reading
  • pingle in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • pingle in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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